SOCI 3692 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Elective Affinities, Monastery, Protestant Work Ethic
21 Dec 2017
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Some say weber is the most important classical sociologist. He understood sociology in a rather different sense than durkhiem. Weber has training in a variety of fields. For him, sociology is about traversing different disciplines. Weber is often seen as contradictory to marx. He is seems as complementary as well. He doesn"t think that there is a single cause to explain all of history. This means that weber doesn"t have a totalized concept of history. For marx, it"s a succession of modes of production. In durkhiem theres a movement from the simple to the complex. In weber, there is no over arching theory. There is always something relatively indeterminate of writings of history. There is no reason for protestant and calvinst doctrine to have emerged. When weber discusses the protestant ethics, he doesn"t view it as a social fact as the sense of durkhiem. Once has to understand the subjective dimension.
