SOCI 2110H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Instrumental And Value Rationality, Mcdonaldization, Social Inequality

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2110H
• Professor: Barbara

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Soci 2110h: discovering social theory - max weber. Verstehen , construction of ideal types, separation of fact and value. Eg. the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism; bureaucracy; class, status and party. Weber"s conception of sociology: a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arrive at causal explanation of its course and consequences . Facts and values the choice of problem is value-laden, but methods should be value-neutral: science is not the basis for morality. We can accomplish something which is never attainable in the natural sciences, namely the subjective understanding of the action of the component individuals . Rationalized reconstructions of particular kinds of behavior" (eg. instrumentally rational action") Capitalisms: booty capitalism, missing this note **** traditional capitalism rational (modern) capitalism accumulation, oriented toward specific ends, not continuous accumulation, geared to a regular market, rational bookkeeping, systematic pursuit of profit,