“With Whom no White Scholar can Compare”: Academic Interpretations of the Relationship between W.E.B. Du Bois and Max Weber

AbstractAlthough Max Weber does not specifically analyze the topic of esteem, his investigation of the Protestant ethic offers interesting insights into it. The change in mentality it engendered essentially contributed to enhancing the meaning and importance of esteem in modern society. In his analysis, Weber ascertains that esteem was fundamental to being accepted and integrated into the social life of congregations. Nevertheless, he also highlights that esteem was supported by a form of self-esteem which was not simply derived from a good social reputation, but also achieved through a deep and continual self-analysis as well as a strict discipline in the ethical conduct of life. The present analysis reconstructs the different aspects of the relationship between social and self-esteem and analyzes the consequences of that relationship by focusing on the exemplary case of the politician’s personality and ethic.

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Kontekstualisasi Al-Qur’an Dan Pancasila Melalui Penguatan Muslim HUB Sebagai Pola Alternatif Dalam Menghadapi Industri 4.0

Al-Dzikra Jurnal Studi Ilmu Al-Qur an dan Al-Hadits ◽

10.24042/al-dzikra.v14i1.4954 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Muhammad Akrom Adabi ◽

Neny Muthi'atul Awwaliyah

Keyword(s):

Industry 4.0 ◽

Max Weber ◽

Active Role ◽

The Status ◽

The Face ◽

Spirit Of Capitalism ◽

New Challenges ◽

The Times ◽

The Relationship ◽

Holy Book

AbstractThe Qur’an, which has the status of a Muslim holy book, is experiencing "alienation" because it is considered unable to make practical contributions to various new challenges that arise. Al-Qur’an and Pancasila, which are the two important handles of Indonesian Muslims, are expected to not only keep up with the times. More than that, the al-Qur’an and Pancasila must really be able to fill the void and give an active role through its values, to bring the progress of Indonesia with a distinctive personality in the face of the Industrial 4.0 era. This paper tries to review the strengthening of Muslim Hub as a strategy in dealing with Industry 4.0 through contextualization of the values of the Koran and Pancasila. This study uses Max Weber's theory of Protestant ethics. In a book entitled The Protestant Ethics and Spirit of Capitalism, Weber has done a thorough analysis of the relationship between capitalism and religion. AbstrakAl-Qur’an dan Pancasila harus betul-betul mampu mengisi kekosongan dan memberi peran aktif melalui nilai-nilainya, untuk membawa kemajuan Indonesia dengan kepribadian yang khas dalam menghadapi era Industri 4.0. Tulisan ini mencoba mengulas seputar penguatan muslim hub sebagai strategi dalam menghadapi Industri 4.0 melalui kontekstualisasi nilai al-Qur’an dan Pancasila. Dalam penelitian ini ada dua bukti empiris yang pertama order monastic, dimana orang saleh ternyata juga memiliki prestasi yang gemilang dari sisi material. Kedua sekte protestan yang memiliki prestasi yang gemilang dalam fase awal munculnya kapitalisme modern. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Max Weber tentang etika Protestan. Dalam buku yang berjudul The Protestan Ethics and Spirit of Capitalism, Weber telah melakukan analisa yang mendalam mengenai relasi kapitalisme dan keagamaan yang menunjukkan betapa agama memiliki pengaruh kuat dalam pembentukan karakter pemeluknya. Jika ditarik ke kajian yang lebih luas, maka ideologi memiliki peran kuat dalam mempengaruhi perilaku pengikutnya, baik ideologi keagamaan maupun ideologi kenegaraan. Kata Kunci: Kontekstualisasi, Al-Qur’an, Pancasila, Industri 4.0.

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Du Bois and James at Harvard: The Challenges of Fraternal Pairings and Racial Theory

The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics ◽

10.1017/rep.2019.21 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 352-377 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Saladin Ambar

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

National Identity ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Political Thought ◽

William James ◽

Double Consciousness ◽

American Political Thought ◽

Du Bois ◽

History Of ◽

The Relationship

AbstractThis article seeks to illuminate the relationship between two of the most important figures in American political thought: the pragmatist philosopher William James, and the pioneering civil rights leader and intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois. As Harvard's first African American PhD, Du Bois was a critical figure in theorizing about race and identity. His innovative take on double consciousness has often been attributed to his contact with James who was one of Du Bois's most critical graduate professors at Harvard. But beyond the view of the two thinkers as intellectual collaborators, is the fraught history of liberal racial fraternal pairing and its role in shaping national identity. This article examines Du Bois and James's relationship in the context of that history, one marked by troubled associations between friendship and race.

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A dangerous liaison? Harnessing Weber to illuminate the relationship of democracy and charisma in the Philippines and India

International Sociology ◽

10.1177/0268580920942721 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (6) ◽

pp. 691-709

Author(s):

Walden Flores Bello

Keyword(s):

Rational Choice Theory ◽

Choice Theory ◽

Max Weber ◽

The Philippines ◽

Class Theory ◽

The Social ◽

Charismatic Authority ◽

Democratic Elections ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Democratic elections in the Philippines and India in 2019 yielded a paradoxical result: the strengthening of the political hegemony of personalities partial to authoritarian rule. An examination of economic, social, and political conditions prior to the elections shows that the usual paradigms used to explain voters’ choices – class theory, rational choice theory, and patron–client theory – fail to account for the sweeping victories of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A more useful framework is that of charismatic authority derived from Max Weber. Employing this paradigm, the article discusses the origins of charismatic authority in the two polities, the differences in charismatic appeal, the social construction of charisma, charisma and the creation of the Other, and the democratic dialectic at the heart of charismatic authoritarianism.

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Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

10.12987/yale/9780300219036.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kathryn Tanner

Keyword(s):

Max Weber ◽

Dominant Role ◽

Human Life ◽

Economic Behavior ◽

Critical Perspective ◽

Beliefs And Practices ◽

Current Configuration ◽

Spirit Of Capitalism ◽

The Relationship ◽

Christian Beliefs

The current configuration of capitalism, in which finance plays a dominant role, has the capacity to shape people in ways that hinder the development of any critical perspective on it. This book explores the various cultural forms of finance-dominated capitalism and suggests how their pervasive force in human life might be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable person-shaping capacity. In this way, the book reverses the project of the German sociologist Max Weber in his Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, while employing much the same methods as he used for discussing the relationship between religious beliefs and economic behavior. Weber showed how Christian beliefs and practices, by way of its work ethic, could form persons in line with what capitalism required of them. This book demonstrates the capacity of Christian beliefs and practices to help people resist the dictates of capitalism in its present, finance-dominated configuration.

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Christianity and Secularisation in South Africa: Probing the Possible Link between Modernisation and Secularisation

Studies in World Christianity ◽

10.3366/swc.2013.0049 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 141-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nico Vorster

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Social Factors ◽

Statistical Data ◽

Max Weber ◽

The Third ◽

African Experience ◽

The Republic ◽

The Relationship

The secularisation theory of Max Weber states that modernisation inevitably leads to the decline of religion. This theory has in recent years been challenged by the desecularisation theories of various sociologists and philosophers. This article probes the possible link between modernisation and secularisation through a case study of the Republic of South Africa. South Africa is an important case study because it went through a rapid process of modernisation from the 1990s onwards. The first section examines the secularisation thesis of Weber and his supporters, as well as theories of desecularisation. The second section discusses the periods of anti-modernisation (1910–90) and modernisation (1990–2012) in South Africa. The third section analyses statistical data on the state of religion in South Africa, while the last section offers some concluding remarks on the relationship between modernisation and secularisation in South Africa thus far. The finding of the article is that the South African experience indicates that modernisation has an impact on religion, but the effect is not necessarily one of a decline in religion. In South Africa, modernisation has led to the decline of religion in some communities and the rejuvenation of religion in others. The effect of modernisation on religion seems to depend on its interaction with a range of other social factors.

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Legitimacy of democracy in the works by Max Weber and Сarl Schmitt

Pravovedenie ◽

10.21638/spbu25.2018.305 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 501-517

Author(s):

Viktor P. Kirilenko ◽

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Georgij V. Alekseev ◽

Keyword(s):

Rule Of Law ◽

Max Weber ◽

Legal Culture ◽

Carl Schmitt ◽

Political Regime ◽

The Political ◽

Modern Democracy ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

Political Events ◽

The Relationship

Identification of political regime’s legality and legitimacy by the German lawyer Carl Schmitt seems to be an attempt to solve the problem of unjust laws which is close to the idea of legitimate domination stated by Max Weber. Popularity of the legitimacy paradigm within the framework of political and legal discourse on its way towards the provision of rational government is often associated with an underestimation of democratic charisma’s role in legitimation when it is compared to the legal bureaucratic justification of government. Noting the fact that rationality is the most important and at the same time the least reasoned part of Max Weber’s social theory, we need to assess the potential of the bureaucracy in securing the ideals of the rule of law with an extreme caution. If Carl Schmitt’s position on the relationship between legality and legitimacy changed along with the development of political events of the 20th century, the ideas of Max Weber were modified during the translations of his works from German and gave to legitimacy deep textbook value. Decrease in chances of unjust law’s application requires certain legal culture that allows not only to question any formal prescription of the law and to test it for legitimacy, but also gives an opportunity to assess the legality of any democratic decision before it is implemented. Understanding the legitimacy of democracy depends largely on the ideology that dominates society, and the legal culture of the person that assesses the political regime. It is obvious in the context of political mistakes made during the first half of the twentieth century that the danger of underestimating the threats to the rule of law, originating both from illegitimate authorities and from unlawful political decisions. Historical experience underscores the need for a broad understanding of the rule of law state (Rechtsstaat) in a modern democracy, which simultaneously protects the formal legality and legitimacy of the political regime.

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A relação entre História e Sociologia no horizonte da conceitualização e da explicação dos objetos históricos: reflexões sobre o pensamento de Max Weber * The relationship between History and Sociology over the horizon of conceptualization...

História e Cultura ◽

10.18223/hiscult.v3i3.1408 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

ULISSES DO VALLE

Keyword(s):

Max Weber ◽

Historical Narrative ◽

The Other ◽

Historical Knowledge ◽

Empirical Reality ◽

Ideal Types ◽

Historical Objects ◽

The One ◽

The Relationship

Resumo: Este artigo procura refletir sobre as relações entre a disciplina da história e a sociologia a partir do pensamento de Max Weber. Procuramos mostrar como a sociologia exerce uma participação fundamental na constituição do conhecimento histórico com relação a dois procedimentos específicos: a caracterização adequada das entidades históricas individuais, por um lado, e a lógica explicativa que preside a narrativa histórica, por outro. Veremos como Weber, então, introduz a sociologia como uma forma de resolver o intricado problema da interpenetração entre o geral e o particular na representação e na explicação dos objetos históricos, de modo a esclarecer os vínculos formais e metodológicos entre as duas disciplinas assim entendidas.Palavras-chave: História; Sociologia; realidade empírica; tipos ideais. Abstract: This paper discuss the relationship between the discipline of history and sociology from the thought of Max Weber. We intend to show how sociology plays a key role in the constitution of historical knowledge regarding two specific procedures: the appropriate characterization of individual historical entities, on the one hand, and the explanatory logic of the historical narrative, on the other. We will see how Weber then introduces sociology as a way to solve the intricate problem of interpenetration between the general and the particular in the representation and explanation of historical objects, in order to clarify the formal and methodological links between the two disciplines well understood.Keywords: History; Sociology; empirical reality; ideal types.

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O que os sociólogos aprendem com a música? Vidas musicais ocultas e o ofício de entender a sociedade

El oído pensante ◽

10.34096/oidopensante.v9n1.8075 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Les Back

Keyword(s):

Max Weber ◽

Du Bois ◽

Paul Gilroy ◽

Indie Rock

Os sociólogos são frequentemente músicos secretos. Isso vem desde W.E.B. Du Bois e Max Weber, no século XIX, para os quais a vida musical sempre esteve entrelaçada em seu pensamento sociológico. Nos últimos tempos, têm ocorrido numerosos apelos para que a música seja usada para reimaginar a própria sociologia. Por exemplo, David Beer (2014) reivindicou uma sociologia punk – tão urgente e vital como um single do The Clash – como um antídoto para as tendências vistosas e técnicas do “rock progressivo” na disciplina mainstream. Este artigo desenvolve a ideia de fazer sociologia com música, concentrando-se nas vidas musicais ocultas dos sociólogos. Ele explora uma série de exemplos, do aprendizado de campo de Howard Becker como pianista nos clubes de jazz de Chicago e suas teorias do desvio e rotulação, ao impacto que o violão teve na compreensão de Paul Gilroy sobre as culturas da diáspora africana, à conexão entre a vida de Emma Jackson como baixista na banda de indie rock Kenickie e sua sociologia feminista DIY (Faça você mesmo). Argumenta que os sociólogos aprendem muito com a música, tanto em termos das percepções que ela produz quanto no funcionamento da cultura e da sociedade, mas também em termos de como ela sustenta nossa imaginação sociológica e nos inspira a fazer sociologia de maneira diferente.

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The Relevance of Weber’s Conception and Typology of Herrschaft

The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190679545.013.14 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 236-257

Author(s):

Stefan Breuer

Keyword(s):

Max Weber ◽

Organizational Structures ◽

Instrumental Rationality ◽

Administrative Staff ◽

Research Fields ◽

Cultural Research ◽

Legal Formalism ◽

Formal Rationality ◽

The Relationship

Max Weber developed his sociology of domination between 1909 and 1920. This chapter addresses the relationship between domination and power, distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate domination or authority. Legitimate domination is based upon the three pure types of legal, traditional, and charismatic domination, which appear in combination with different organizational structures. Charismatic domination can assume different forms, from authentic charisma to hereditary and office charisma to an antiauthoritarian variant. Traditional domination encompasses a variety of types, from gerontocracy to diverse forms of patrimonialism and feudalism. The belief in legality, expressed for instance in a bureaucratic administrative staff, is characterized primarily through formal rationality, not purposive or instrumental rationality. Thus, today this last type is affected by tendencies that promote the weakening or even the dissolution of legal formalism. This chapter combines a systematic presentation with the application of the “domination” topic in the different scientific and cultural research fields during the last decades.

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