SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mcdonaldization, Herd Behavior, Orthodox Marxism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Themes in this narration: situating weber, comparing durheim and weber. One of three founders of the classical tradition in sociology a modernist. Potentially one of the first postmodernist sociologists. Max weber - work breaks into four parts. Born into groups where collective representations (durkheim) or. Society as objective fact (sui generis) vs. a skilled accomplishment. Born into society that surrounds us vs. constituted through meaningful social action. Pursuit of social laws vs. study of social trends or tendencies. Types of social solidarity vs. types of social action (traditional, value-rational, goal-rational, and affective action) Religion, collective representations and social integration; vs religious meaning and elective affinity with material processes. Themes in this narration: webers methodological writings. B. orthodox marxism: weber"s interpretive sociology. Two methodological extremes in german social thought. But did not accept economic determinism of orthodox marxists. Ideas and consciousness significant sociology as interpretive understanding.