GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rationality, Protestant Work Ethic, Industrial Revolution
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Max weber the man (don"t need to know this stuff for exam: grew up in berlin father was influential politician when germany was unified. Interested in making sense of the building of the state: fascinated by the rise of industrial and rural societies, and the roots of social conflict within this. Locke and marx were engaged in movements they were writing about, weber not so much: he was seeking change and arguing for greater democracy, but he wasn"t trying to run a revolution. Those concepts are not the world, those concepts help us make sense of the world. Capitalism and the protestant ethic: why did capitalism arise in the occident (e. g. modern west), and not the orient, we need to look not just at the necessary conditions of capitalism, but also the sufficient conditions. 75 benjamin franklin quote remember time is money, money is of the proliphic generating nature **find this in readings.
