This article examines the use of analytic continua with spatial scaling and with potentially similar reifying effects to rationalize social meaning rather than just sound or sight in cultural sociology. It considers the use of the figure of spatial scaling as a point of entry to elucidate the basi...
The existence of the sociological critique of science, and SSK in particular, suggests that the meaning of science in modernity is not monolithic but multiple, arising out of a central dilemma over the universal form of knowledge鈥恈laims and their necessarily particular, human and social ...
Explore the theory of rationalization by Max Weber and discover who he was. Learn about Max Weber's rationality in sociology and study examples in...
In summary, Max Weber believed that Verstehen, which is the method of understanding why people act the way they do, is the building block of sociology. Studying motivation helps us to understand the action of people in their social groups, which then helps us understand how and why society ...
Interpretations of the concrete meaning of Weber’s key concept — the rationalization process — by scholars in the last 100 years have varied widely. Two major approaches can be distinguished, with some overlap between them. The first connected his view of rationalization to Karl Marx’s ...
Max Weber's sociology of religion contains an account of the emergence and development of modern Western culture. This account reads the history of the West in terms of two interconnected processes: the rise and spread of Occidental (instrumental) rationalism (the process of rationalization) and th...
The existence of the sociological critique of science, and SSK in particular, suggests that the meaning of science in modernity is not monolithic but multiple, arising out of a central dilemma over the universal form of knowledge-claims and their necessarily particular, human and social grounding....
This process of devaluation or disenchantment, gives rise to a condition of cultural nihilism in which the intrinsic value or meaning of values or actions are subordinated increasingly to a 'rational' quest for efficiency and control.doi:10.1057/9780230502512_2Nicholas Gane...
WEBER's sociology can be understood as an attempt to spell out the type of rationality which is at the core of modern society and the type of ethical life style which is in line with it. In so far his approach is still an alternative to system theory and to a Marxian perspective. ...
He died in 1920. Several of his works have been highly influential, including The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Economy and Society. The former offers the thesis that capitalism is derived from a puritan ethic and concern with predestination, meaning that values and ideas ...