SOCI 3251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Az Yet, Tradition, Traditional Authority
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It is forever renewed profit- as a continued rational enterprise. Where behaviors are determined by habit or long-standing custom. The making of money coupled with ability to not enjoy it. Competition rationalized (weber found catholics would not work more for higher wages. Such pure categories are not realized in concrete cases. Instead they are conceptual yardstick for examining differences and similarities, as well. Capitalist oppression now legitimated, a rationalized value that is profoundly irrational but protestants would-- need signs they are of god"s elect. For weber, core of capitalism is not just material needs/acquisitive impulse (marx) Weber defines sociology as being concerned with the interpretive understanding of social action and thereby with a casual explanation of its course and consequences. Weber"s categories of social action, then, serve as ideal types or analytical constructs against which real-life cases can be compared as causal connections, between social processes.
