SOCL 3101 Chapter : SOCL3101 Oneil 02192016
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Last class we talked about some of weber"s ideas including his ideas on bureaucracies and how bureaucracies are designed to be as rational as possible, referring to them as modern rational bureaucracies. He notes that an over emphasis on rationality can become irrational. Weber, in his own time, was not the only sociologist that was concerned with rationality. Certainly, durkheim spoke about rationality of societies and how industrial societies were a more rational way of doing things. For weber: this is the most irrational) but these are actions that have no cognitive thought. (laughing, crying, embarrassment, sex drive. ) They just make people feel better, or feel like they are accomplishing something. (religious activities, protests) indirectly these things might change irrational type of action. Now, while we are talking about action, for weber, it implies that the actors have goals and intentions that we are not just controlled by outside forces,and those goals and intentions.
