SOCI 3251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Immanence, Anomie, Iron Cage
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The search for meaning- which weber saw as the essence of the human. Weber maintained that social life did not evolve according to some immanent or. Evidencing his connection to nietzsche, a major theme running throughout the. An ongoing process in which social interaction and institutions become. Weber contended that the development of societies could not be adequately. Weber"s reluctance to champion the progress brought by science and. Webers writing reflects a critical engagement with, and extension of, marx"s theory of historical materialism necessary law explained on the basis of a single or primary causal mechanism. For weber it was not capitalism but the process of rationalization and the increasing dominance of bureaucracies that threatened to destroy creativity and individuality. Power is universal/non-transcendable and is rarely naked (nietzche) can be instrumental in producing social change history of sociology. People driven by interests but interests are material and ideal. Weber (ongoing relationship between power (marx) and meaning.
