SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Iron Cage, Az Yet, John Calvin
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In the hands of these later puritans leaders, the meaning of the calling was transformed. The calling was interpreted a god"s commandment to work for his divine glory. Introduction to the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism cont. Iron cage- the ascetic ideal lying at the heart of protestant ethic were carried into the practical affairs of economic activity and social life more generally. This unleashed the process of rationalization, disenchanting western society and crating an iron cage from which the individual is left with little power to escape. The dominance of capitalism and impersonal, bureaucratic forms of organization was a collective force that determined the life-chances of the individual. Weber argued that distinct interests and forms of power were connected to economic classes, status groups, and political parties (i. e. , forms of social stratification) Power- :the chance of a man or of a number of men to realize their own will [or.
