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MAX WEBER - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Subjective Dimension of life: motivations/ state of mind
        
        Interpretive; Substantive
      - Objective Dimension of life: History, Politics and Economy
        
        Positivistic
  - - - how to know ?
  - - - Common denominations of number of empirical phenomenon
        
        "rationalization"
        
        on-going process in which social actions and institutions are governed by methodological procedures and calculable rules
        
        less ambiguity
        
        describe phenomena
        
        causal agents
        
        for comparative analysis of structures and actions
        
        typically seen
        
        why?
        
        pure ideas are not realized in concrete cases
        
        solutions is
        
        ordering reality
        
        articulating the elements of recurring phenomena
      - created, mental constructs
        
        heuristic tool
  - - - Instrumental-Rational
        
        cost and benefit analysis
      - Value-Rational actions
        
        i.e. patriotism, loyalty
        
        goals pursued irrespective of costs
      - Emotional action
        
        non-rational motivated by feeling
      - Traditional Action
        
        habit, action
  - - - Calvinist Tenets
        
        Purpose of the worldly activities to serve an all-powerful God
        
        The individual stand alone before God
        
        Predestination fate is already decided by God
        
        Work as a calling
        
        Time not spent in working is sinful
        
        2 more items...
        
        expression of duty towards your brother
        
        classes are divine will of God - Luther
        
        He required it: You may labor to rich for God, though not for flesh and sin
        
        If you use wealth for temptations, idleness and merry living, it is morally bad
        
        Gothein rightly calls the Calvinistic diaspora the seed-bed of capitalistic economy.
    - - Occupational statistics - business leaders and owners of capital are, skilled laborer are overwhelmingly Protestant
        
        Mobility: Catholics stay on their craft as journeyman
        
        Protestants - upper ranks and administrative position
  - - - Class
        
        Economic
      - Status
        
        prestige, lifestyle
      - Party
        
        Political Power
      - extension of teh work of Marx
  - - - publicly invoked reasons for obeying and complying with the command of issuing authority
      - Typology:
        
        Traditional
        
        Rational-legal
        
        Charismatic
        
        "routinization"
  - - - dominant form of social organization in modern society
        
        as compared to all forms of administration, bureaucracy is superior on all these points
        
        precision
        
        speed
        
        unambiguity
        
        knowledge of file
        
        continuity
        
        discretion
        
        unity
        
        strict
        
        subordination
        
        reduction of friction
        
        creation of new group called technocrats
        
        In Economy and Society (1978)
  - - - Reformation and Scientific Revolution
        
        Paradigm Shift
        
        Rationalization
        
        Social Actions
        
        Bureaucracy
        
        authority
        
        capitalism
      - There are no mysterious incalculable forces that come into play, but rather one can, in principle, master all things by calculation - Weber (1919)