Sociology 3020: Weber

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Weber: Class, Status, Party (Relative Autonomy)

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Class: economic class
Status: social status
-most people don't live in their economic roles
-like associates with like
Party: political power

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Weber vs. Marx

Back 2

Weber expanded on Marx class struggle.

More variation because of Status, and Party.

Not confined by class.

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Dimensions of Stratification

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Class, Status, Party

Relative autonomy of those 3 things.
-How they relate to each other

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Protestant Ethic

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Protestantism is necessary for the development of modern capitalism (but also other factors)

Without protestantism there would be no capitalism.

Created a set of attitudes toward work, punctuality, and saving.
Laziness is sinful, you don't have to be at church in order to be worshipping God.
You can do economic work and not disrespect God.

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Does Protestantism remain in contemporary capitalism? (according to Weber)

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Ben Franklin: "Time is money"

Salvation anxiety: hope of eternal salvation is gone. (If you do a good job, that means God likes you and you will be saved)

Crisis of Faith: how we interpret our relationship with God.
*Does it matter anymore?

****You still have to work hard, but you don't need to be protestant

*you were predestined to do well or predestined to do badly

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Weber vs. Marx on the origins and development of Capitalism

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-Weber believes social change will come about through capitalism, protestant ideas help guide change
-Marx believes that there are 2 distinct classes, a ruling class and a working class, materialism will drive society, constructions dominate us.

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Rationalization: Types of Authority

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1. Traditional: kinship/tribal leader
-Moral traditions

2. Charismatic: religious prophet, political leader

3. Legal-rational: bureaucracy organization, private vs. public
-iron cage

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Rationalization:

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Part of the disenchantment of the world.

-We have explained things, the world is not just a phenomenon anymore.
-With capitalism we want to justify everything, there's no compassion, it's just power.

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Iron Cage Revolution

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Parallel to Marx's alienation.

-Trapped, there is no way out of life.
-because of the disenchantment of the world.
-with modernity, it is not about choosing something because we like it, we follow a leader because the process of becoming is a rational process.
-we trust the rational process of voting.
-we no longer follow a president because we think he has a supernatural connection to the gods.

*human beings are trapped inside this iron cage of rationality
*this instrumental rationality is iron cage
*you're no longer a person, you are just a tool in the process

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Charisma affecting the currents of rationalization

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When people have no where else to turn during periods of crisis, they are vulnerable.
They turn to a leader (Hitler) for guidance.

It is their "felt duty" to carry out the command of a leader to accomplish something great.

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Weber: Origin of Capitalism

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-Institutionalization of rationality
-happened over time
-process that leads to capitalism
-Marx is more concerned about how there was an emergence or change in the way things were produced.

Weber: superstructure affected base