LY200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Protestant Work Ethic, Ideal Type, Rationality
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Central concern for weber is power & domination. Interested in how we come to allow ourselves to be coerced politically, economically, and socially. He wants to evaluate the nature of our consciousness. Show me the kind of political authority that"s taking place in our society and i"ll show you what"s in your head. Sees the rise of modernity as the result of the whole multi factors. His biggest contribution is that he goes beyond this list of ingredients and actually gives us the mechanism (his analogies are stupid) He looks for the falsification of a rule (he looks for the fault in overlapping theories) He uses an ideal type analysis to break down o. Reduces the causal factors to a simplified model. The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (his book) It is what creates the wealth for protestant people. And it"s related to the protestant ethic. What"s unique about it: greed is an ethical imperative.
