SLGY 2131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mahatma Gandhi, Exchange Economy, Nuclear Family
24 Mar 2017
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Weber sees a systematic process of rationalization underlying western industrial capitalism. A group of interrelated processes that systematically transformed wester european societies by a long run tendency to bring order and perfection to what in its natural state is not in order or perfect. Weber analyzed rationalization in religion, law, economics, science, politics, art, etc. Rationalization consists of ; o secularization o calculability o rational action (creating disenchantment of modernity. Thought and social action replaces religion as the motivating creed for the west. It is a move from traditional ways to more beaurecratic ways what is given o practical no external causes affecting outcome of human action. How does religion affect the dynamic of class relations. Whereas in protestant school, studies of commerce were typical and these individuals would be more likely to be owners of factories and managers. Social class and status agrees with marx that industrial capitalism is predicated on a resovoir of formally free labor.
