Ideal-type, institutional and evolutionary analyses of the origins of capitalism: Max Weber and Thorstein Veblen

2009 ◽  
pp. 146-182
Author(s):  
Jack Barbalet
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Thorstein Veblen

Max Weber as an Economist: Revisiting Max Weber’s Legacy 100 Years after His Passing

2020 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-222
Author(s):  
Marek Louzek
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Methodological Individualism ◽  
The Third ◽  
Value Neutrality ◽  
The Ideal

This article presents Max Weber as an economist and as a social scientist. Weber’s relations to economics, philosophy and sociology are discussed. Max Weber has more in common with economists than it might seem at first sight. His principle of value neutrality has become the foundation of the methodology of social sciences, including economics. The second point shared by Max Weber with standard economics is methodological individualism. The third point which a modern economist can learn from Max Weber is the concept of the ideal type.

scholarly journals Is the legacy of Max Weber relevant today? (On the centenary of his death)

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Larissa G. Titarenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
Main Achievement ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Interpretive Sociology ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Individual

The article discusses the main issues of the scientific heritage of the classic of world sociology Max Weber, and discusses the reasons why his legacy remains relevant today. It touches upon the problems and difficulties associated with the translation of Weber’s works from German, which led to the inaccuracies in the interpretation of his ideas. The article emphasized the main achievement of Weber that is the creation of an interpretive sociology and its conceptual apparatus. Much attention is paid to the concept of «freedom from values» in connection with Weber’s interpretation of science as a sphere in which there is no place for any criteria other than scientific ones, and the difference between the sphere of science and the sphere of politics, where the individual can openly show his interests and preferences. The methodological relevance of the problems and concepts disclosed by Weber, in particular, the concepts of «ideal type», «types of domination», «charisma», «social action», rationality», «bureaucracy» is considered.

Studien zur Genese rationaler Lebensführung und zum Sektentypus Max Webers / Studies on Max Weber’s Sect as an Ideal Type and the Genesis of the Rational Way of Life

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Konersmann
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Way Of Life

ZusammenfassungDen Ausgangspunkt des Aufsatzes bildet die Frage, ob und inwiefern die These von der protestantischen Ethik Max Webers und der von ihm entwickelte Sektentypus als geeignete Interpretamente anzusehen sind, um das religiöse Selbstverständnis sowie das Sozial- und Wirtschaftsverhalten mennonitischer Bauernfamilien im linksrheinischen deutschen Südwesten zwischen 1632 und 1850 plausibel zu rekonstruieren und zu analysieren. Auf der Grundlage einer kritischen Würdigung des religionssoziologischen Ansatzes Max Webers und unter Berücksichtigung neuerer Forschungsansätze der Täuferforschung werden die Grade der Abweichung der mennonitischen Glaubensgemeinschaften im deutschen Südwesten vom Idealtypus der Sekte in den Bereichen Bekenntnisentwicklung, Organisations- und Ämterstruktur, familiäre und verwandtschaftliche Verankerung der Glaubensgemeinschaft und soziale Differenzierung vorgestellt und erläutert. Im Ergebnis wird der von Max Weber allen Mitgliedern protestantischer Sekten unterstellte Individualismus und Habitus rationaler Lebensführung, der als wesentlicher mentaler Faktor für die Ausprägung des kapitalistischen Geistes anzusehen ist, weitgehend auf bestimmte Mitglieder eingeschränkt, die informelle und formelle Führungsaufgaben übernahmen. Die Genese rationaler Lebensführung wird hypothetisch als das Produkt dialektischer Prozesse endogener und exogener Faktoren beurteilt. Zu den endogenen Faktoren gehören Abkehr von Mission, Anerkennung der Obrigkeit, kirchenähnliche Gemeindebildung, Schärfung der Kirchenzucht und Intensivierung innerweltlicher Askese sowie Zuwachs zentraler Aufgaben bei einzelnen Mitgliedern, zu den exogenen Faktoren sind tolerantere Religionspolitik und wachsende Bedeutung ökonomischer Zielvorgaben der Obrigkeiten, verbesserte Rechtslage für Minderheiten sowie Verdichtung und Dynamisierung von Marktbeziehungen zu zählen.

The Axiological Memory of Max Weber

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-199
Author(s):  
Nicolae Râmbu
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Individual ◽  
Value Judgement

Although it is been more than a century since the appearance of Max Weber’s famous essay about the objective character of knowledge in the field of social and political sciences, it still continues to attract the interest of researchers in the various cultural sciences. There is a whole secondary literature dedicated to concepts that Weber has not defined clearly enough, such as Idealtypus [ideal type], historisches Individuum [historical individual], Wertbeziehung [value-relation] or Werturteilsfreiheit [the freedom from value- judgement] ( Oakes, 1990 ). Our contribution falls into this category; since the phrase ‘axiological memory’ appears nowhere in Weber’s work, the concept itself is present, especially in his essays dedicated to methodology in the social and political sciences. As Guy Oakes noted, Weber did not always endeavour to argue his thesis rigorously, thus leaving ample room for the interpretation and development of his ideas.

MAINTAINING ACCOUNTING AS THE PARAMOUNT INTEREST IN ACCOUNTING RESEARCH: RE-EXAMINING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DR SCOTT

1991 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Covaleski ◽  
Mark W. Dirsmith
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Economic Organizations ◽  
Classical Work ◽  
The Relationship

Cushing's [1989] recent analysis of Kuhn's [1970] characterization of the state of crisis within a discipline's research agenda suggests that the accounting discipline is showing symptoms of such a crisis. In this paper, DR Scott's [1931] classical work The Cultural Significance of Accounts is developed in terms of it being one of the earlier and more significant efforts to recognize a pending crisis within the accounting research arena. Scott's work is defined as not only being a precursor to identifying the crisis in accounting research, but also as providing a meaningful basis for addressing the significant issues embedded within the contemporary research crisis. The intellectual underpinnings of DR Scott's work are traced to that of Max Weber, Thorstein Veblen, and other scholars concerned with examining the changing status of society and economic organizations. It is argued that it is this critical appraisal of the relationship between economic organizations and society which drives Scott's concern for the fundamental issues at stake for accounting research.

Schoenberg, Boulez, and Twelve-Tone Composition as “Ideal Type”

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arved Ashby
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Twelve Tone ◽  
Pierre Boulez ◽  
Scientific Problem Solving ◽  
History Of ◽  
Compositional Practice

Abstract Twelve-tone music is often defined empirically, in generalized terms of compositional practice. I contend that historians and theorists have neglected a heuristic perspective of twelve-tone composition. One heuristic model proves particularly helpful: the “ideal type,” first described by social scientist Max Weber in “Objectivity' in Social Science and Social Policy” (1904). Weber's ideal type can help to move the discussion away from scientistic ideas of problem solving and overly abstract invocations of “the twelve-tone idea,” and toward what Weber would call the “cultural significance” of twelve-tone methodologies (a move in line with influential revisions to the historiography of scientific “problem solving” proposed by Thomas Kuhn and Imre Lakatos). Differences of perspective between Arnold Schoenberg and the young Pierre Boulez, at about the time the latter first arrived at Darmstadt, highlight the difficulty in establishing a coherent history of twelve-tone compositional practice (as opposed to a heuristic “ideal type”). The anonymous typescript “Komposition mit zwöölf Töönen,” linked with Schoenberg's Viennese circle of the early 1920s, reveals how the early twelve-tone “discovery” described by Schoenberg is, no less than the later descriptions by Boulez, an a posteriori construct—or, as Kuhn and Lakatos might say, an ideological colonization of past practice.

Robert K. Merton et al.,

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward C. Page
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Class And Status ◽  
Bureaucratic Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

This article offers a critique ofA Reader in Bureaucracy, by Robert K. Merton et al. It examines four themes in the papers and debates in the book, many of which were central to the study of bureaucracy in the 1950s and 1960s: the debate with Max Weber over his historical-comparative ambitions of the ‘ideal type’ of bureaucracy, formality and informality, the relationship between social stratification and bureaucracy, and the problematization of authority. The discussion outlines Weber’s perspectives on bureaucracy, particularly the ideal type of bureaucracy, his preconditions of bureaucracy, and the bureaucratizing tendencies in modern society. The chapter then turns to the problematic link between social class and status and bureaucracy, together with the role of formal rules and hierarchy in explaining bureaucratic behavior. It concludes by assessing the influence of sociology in general, and of theReaderin particular, on contemporary public policy studies.

4. The Nation-State

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Gianfranco Poggi
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Public ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Legitimate Violence

This chapter examines how the nation-state came into being and how it became dominant as a political unit. It first presents a general and streamlined portrait of the state—a concept that sociologists inspired by Max Weber might call an ideal type. In particular, it considers some of the characteristics of a nation-state, including monopoly of legitimate violence, territoriality, sovereignty, plurality, and relation to the population. The chapter proceeds by discussing a more expansive concept of the nation-state, taking into account the role of law, centralized organization, the distinction between state and society, religion and the market, the public sphere, the burden of conflict, and citizenship and nation. The chapter also describes five paths in state formation and concludes with an assessment of three main phases which different European states have followed in somewhat varying sequences: consolidation of rule, rationalization of rule, and expansion of rule.

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