Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - List Of The Batman Characters, Protestant Work Ethic, Ideal Type
1 Apr 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Weber is trying to tell us something about the relationship between the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. A simple idea is that if you take god, and religious concerns away from the protestant, the very core is similar to the core of what it takes to be a good capitalist. All of his methodological concerns are represented in the book. Verstehen: understanding, the whole book is an exercise in verstehen, requesting the reader to take the point of view of the protestant. He invites us to be thinking about these historical actors by creating an ideal type of them. Ideal type: it is an exaggerated type, a stereotype. Once he gives you a stereotype is becomes an object you try to understand. Multicausality: steps outside and becomes more of a macro sociologist at the end of the book.
