POLI 476 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Civil Society, Fatalism, Asceticism
3 Apr 2016
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Outline the arguments that are performed + implication of the arguments (on wednesday) Weber the greatest sociologist path of the west towards modernity, prolific and on wide range of topics (ancient rome, religion, law, bureaucracy, question of methodology, etc. ) Idea of the path towards modernity and the distinction of nature towards the path to modernity. Marx, tocqueville, weber all question of modernity & the western path. Study of the protestant path is the question to how religion relate to modernization. Religion helped to understand social order according to him political and economic consequences. Weber concludes that there is an elective affinity between capitalism and protestant religious doctrine elective affinity and the effect of religion in terms unintended consequences. Relationship is unintended important keywords and to stress question: extent to which world views have an effect on economic behavior and therefore economic development.
