SOCI 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Formal Calculation, Protestant Work Ethic, Elective Affinities
8 May 2017
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Historical and comparative methods: compare countries, compare different time periods within a country. In traditional societies, social organization was based on tradition, age-old customs, norms, values and beliefs. In contrast, social organization in modernity is increasingly characterized by application of science, calculation and formal rules that rule all spheres of social life. Ex: norway is happiest country in the world: beautiful country, national health care, both parents get full paid year off when child is born, ** these are universal interests. What are the effects of transition to modernity on individual: individual-society/structure. Core feature of study of social structure: pattern of individual behavior. Believed we can only predict social action by probability. Weber developed ideal types: capture most dominant features of phenomena. Iii. (empirical) *: abstractions, part of theory, more complex than a concept, purpose is to explain the empirical world, bureaucracy ideal types, hierarchy, rules, etc. Verstehen: understanding meaning of social action, understanding of motivation always.
