SY203 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Traditional Authority, Rationality, Verstehen

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Outline and discuss the importance of the concept of rationality in weber"s work. * weber focused his studies on understanding why modern western societies became the way they did. * his greatest principle of rationalization was the key to understanding development. * used rationalization to describe the process which reality is increasing mastered by calculation, measurement and practical action. * all spheres of society underwent this which led to modern societies. * this term indicated a type of social development which modern societies took the historical form. * all spheres of society were subject to this which led to the growth of modern society. * it formed a control which was imposed on the external world. * 1) development in societies based on control of external reality. * 2) stress on containment of everyday life by control. * 3) use of calculation for social action. * 4) freeing of social action from magical thought.