SOCB43H3 Lecture : d____
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Create your own ideal type, in the same way weber did. Use your type to illustrate what he need by an ideal type (explain what it is, how it works, what it does) increasing power of rationalization the rise of science as a social authority. Science as a vocation: can it match religion, at, math being a noble leader, political leader, etc. Weber says that the idea of trying to make school fun is a vocation of science because real science had qualities that make it incompatible. These qualities/main features of science are: specialization strive for perfection you have to understand something through and through to be a true scientist (not like journalists who scan an idea and write about it). In our world, it is impossible to know everything about something (old times, one was thought to know everything). The possibility of perfectly knowing something now is only possible in speculation.