Ascetic Protestantism and Economic Rationalism: Max Weber Revisited after Two Generations

1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Max Weber's essay on the relationship of ascetic Protestantism and the spirit of capitalism, published in 1904/05, is certainly the most controversial and perhaps the most complicated piece he wrote. As we all know, two generations of scholars have discussed Weber's essay since 1905, filling the shelves of libraries with the fruits of their labors. Scholars in different fields have expressed their own version of what Weber supposedly wanted to say, often generalizing Weber's remarks and giving their own rather than Weber's original opinion.

Ethical Conduct in the Present Age: The Case of Søren Kierkegaard

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Tester
Keyword(s):  
Soren Kierkegaard ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Søren Kierkegaard is widely read in the disciplinary spheres of philosophy and theology. However, the sociological resonance of some of his work has been overlooked. This paper seeks to introduce aspects of Kierkegaard's account of ‘the present age’ to a sociological audience. Kierkegaard's concerns are explored in the context of themes and issues raised by Max Weber. The paper has two themes. First, the paper uses the example of Kierkegaard to explore the relationship of the Protestant Ethic (which is identified as a mode of the production of the personality of the individual) with the Spirit of Capitalism (which is identified as a life order). Second, the paper outlines aspects of Kierkegaard's diagnosis of ‘the present age’ which might be of interest to a sociological audience.

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

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.

Perceptions of the Environment among the Gebaliya Bedouin

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 47-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Relative Paucity ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Children's Environments

AbstractThis paper provides data about how a people still in close contact with their natural physical environment, yet moving from nomadism to a sedentary (though still largely agricultural) lifestyle, perceive their environment. Drawings were obtained from children, and interviews undertaken with adults among the Gebaliya Bedouin in the Sinai desert. The drawings reveal an abundance of animal and plant life and a relative paucity of human artefacts. Wildlife and landscape evidently constitute a central component of these children's environments. The adult interviews reveal how the relationship of the Bedouin with their physical environment, though still an intimate one, has changed in the last two generations. The results are interpreted in the light of social and cultural changes among the Gebaliya Bedouin. The findings reported here may need to be heeded if attempts to preserve endangered wildlife in the Sinai desert, are to succeed.

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

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.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SCROTAL SWELLING AND RICKETTSIA BODIES TO MEXICAN TYPHUS FEVER

1930 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Ruiz Castaneda
Keyword(s):  
Guinea Pig ◽  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Human Case ◽  
Tunica Vaginalis ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Scrotal Swelling ◽  
Typhus Fever ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The experiments recorded above have demonstrated the following points: 1. Scrotal swelling can appear in guinea pigs directly inoculated from a human case of Mexican typhus fever. 2. In certain strains of this disease, a number of generations of guinea pigs may show absolutely no scrotal swelling, which, however, may reappear in subsequent animals, suggesting—though not absolutely proving—that the scrotal swelling is an integral part of the disease and is not due to an incidental accompanying organism. If the latter were true, one would expect the organisms that caused the scrotal swelling to disappear during the negative generations. 3. A typhus fever sustained by a guinea pig without scrotal swelling protects against the swelling upon subsequent inoculation with a strain which produces this with considerable regularity. 4. Louse passage increases the capacity of a strain to produce the scrotal lesion, probably because of the considerable accumulation of rickettsia in the louse, but in the experiment noted, even after louse passage, two generations without swelling occurred, followed by reoccurrence of the swelling. We believe that these observations, taken together, can be interpreted in favour of the likelihood that the swelling is a part of the disease and that the rickettsia-like organisms described by Mooser in the tunica vaginalis have etiological significance.

scholarly journals Motivation for Ethno-Cultural Continuity as a Predictor of Acculturation and Adaptation in Two Generations of Latvian Russians

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 682-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Ryabichenko ◽  
Nadezhda Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Sociocultural Adaptation ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
Heritage Culture ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents the results of empirical research on the relationship of motivation for ethno-cultural continuity (MEC) and strategies of acculturation among two generations of the Russian minority in Latvia. We sampled 107 Russian families (mothers: N = 107, age = 35-59, M = 42 years; late adolescents and youth: N = 107, age = 16-24, M = 17 years). The questionnaire included measures of motivation for ethno-cultural continuity, acculturation strategies, sociocultural adaptation, and self-esteem. A path model showed that motivation for ethno-cultural continuity, preference for assimilation, self-esteem, and sociocultural adaptation of mothers significantly related to those of their children. A motivation for ethno-cultural continuity of mothers predicted their preference for integration and self-esteem, while a motivation for ethno-cultural continuity of adolescents predicted their preference for separation. Preference for integration promoted better sociocultural adaptation and self-esteem in both generations. The results allowed consideration of the process of acculturation on the three interrelated levels: individual, family, and ethnic group, with the central role of the family, teaching younger generations to maintain heritage culture and successfully integrate in the larger society.

Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

2019 ◽  
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.

Weimar Sociology

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kettler ◽  
Colin Loader
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Karl Mannheim ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the status of the fledgling but burgeoning field of sociology from the waning days of the Kaiserreich through the last moments of the Republic. Two intellectual giants who did not live very long into the Republic's founding, Max Weber and Georg Simmel, set the agenda for the study of society in Weimar. The chapter suggests that it was the early demise of Weber and Simmel that permitted their heirs, most prominently Karl Mannheim, to render their writings canonical and to pursue the questions of modernity, rationalization, capitalism and the relationship of ideas and ideology to those phenomena with something like a common language—if not a language that facilitated intellectual consensus on any of these themes.

Between Sociology and Theology: The Spirit of Capitalism Debate

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Tester
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
General Theme ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Protestant Theologian ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Compare And Contrast

This paper revisits the debate on the Spirit of Capitalism in order to show how this well-known sociological theme might be revitalised through an encounter with themes from theology. The paper seeks to offer some of the resources by which it might be possible to think about the ‘moral texture’ of the German tradition of sociology. In so doing, it seeks to compare and contrast the general theme of the Spirit of Capitalism in the work of the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich with debates raised in the neo-Kantian sociology of Georg Simmel and Max Weber. Tillich's discussion of the Spirit of Capitalism is discussed in detail and it is used as the basis for some concluding speculations about the relationship between the disciplines of sociology and theology.

Early Economic Sociology and Contextual Economics: The Weber-Wieser Connection

2018 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Stefan Kolev
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Austrian School ◽  
Social Economics ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Historical School ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This paper addresses the parallel emergence of economic sociology within the Younger Historical School and the Austrian School. It reconstructs biographically the relationship of two key economic sociologists: Max Weber (1864–1920) and Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926). Reconstructing Weber’s interactions with the Austrian economists and the joint pursuit of the research program “Social Economics” is illuminating for Weber’s attitude to economics and helps to correct clichés about the irreconcilability between the schools. For contextual economics, understanding the “outsourcing” of contextualism into sociology initiated in the age of Weber and Wieser can be decisive for the future “re-import” into economics. JEL Codes: A11, B13, B15, B25, B31, P16, Z13

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