scholarly journals Ethos versus Habitus: the Ethical Component in Max Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
I.V. Zabaev ◽  
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E.A. Kostrova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Economic Science ◽  
Rational Action ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Ethical Argument ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Ethical Component ◽  
Rational Type ◽  
Specific Line

This article focuses on Max Weber’s understanding of “ethos” in “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” and the benefits afforded by this concept. The reference is not accidental as it is in this work that Weber could consistently explicate his ethical argument. The idea of ethos becomes clearer in comparison with the concept of habitus, which is actively used today in social science. It is shown that the distinction between ethos and habitus may be more productive than the conflation common in modern research. The category “ethos” is compared with the value-rational action from the later typology of action in Weber’s “Economy and Society”, while habitus is associated with traditional action from the same typology. The concept of ethos is further clarified by the example of Weber’s opposition of traditionalism and ethical modern Western capitalism. By focusing on ethical issues and using character as a theoretical tool, Weber not only puts forward a convincing interpretation but lays the foundations for a specific line of analysis in social and economic science. The category of ethos in conjunction with the value-rational type of action acquires special significance due to the potential for novelty and change that is embedded in it.

scholarly journals O racjonalności działania w ujęciu Maksa Webera

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Paweł Polaczuk
Keyword(s):  
Theory Of Action ◽  
Rational Action ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Public Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Orders ◽  
Rational Type ◽  
Real Action

The article concerns the rationality of acting in Max Weber’s theory of action. The taken attempt of reconstruction of the relation between action and the rationality refers to general types of action and of types of public action. The following regularities of Weber of the presentation are becoming apparent: first, special significance of action of the intentional-rational type, so which is based on the calculation of means because of the purpose. Such action contains structures of the meaning analogous to mathematical-logical what understanding real action enables. Action of the intentional-rational type constitutes the construct on which types of public action are relying. Weber is increasing meaning of intentional-rational elements in these types of action (is rationalizing them) and the number and the significance of trademarks proving about public directing action. This way contemplated clean types of public action constitute the foundation for the rationality of the social orders. Until the end however thinking of the structure covered with drawings here is showing that the system rationality is reducing public informing acting, getting it for rational action because of the purpose.

Recruitment Policies of Non-EU/EEA Nurses and Ethical Issues

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angèle Flora Mendy
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Ethical Argument ◽  
The Past ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Legacies

By examining policies of recruiting non-EU/EEA health workers and how ethical considerations are taken into account when employing non-EU/EEA nurses in the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland, this chapter intends to show that the use of the so-called ‘ethical’ argument to convince national public opinion of the relevance of restrictive recruitment policies is recent (since the 1990s). The analysis highlights the fact that in addition to the institutional legacies, qualification and skills—through the process of their recognition—play an important role in the opening or restriction of the labour market to health professionals from the Global South. The legacy of the past also largely determines the place offered to non-EU/EEA health professionals in the different health systems of host countries.

scholarly journals Religion as a factor of political culture and economic development

2005 ◽  
pp. 145-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irena Ristic
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
The Other ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Philosophical Basis ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism

In his essay ?The Protestant Ethic? Max Weber explains the specific economic development and the foundation of capitalism in Western Europe due to the appearance of protestant sects and the ?spirit of capitalism?. By doing so, Weber assigns religion a significant place among the factors of social and economic development. Taking Weber?s theory and argumentation as a starting point, this article drafts a thesis on ?orthodox ethic? and determines its role in the development of the ?spirit of capitalism? in orthodox countries. For that purpose this article compares political-historical circumstances on the territory of the Western and Eastern Church on one, and pictures the theological-philosophical basis of both Protestantism and Orthodoxy on the other side.

Don’t Be Evil

Google Me ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Cassin
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism

This chapter looks closely at Google’s ethical claims, with reference to Leibniz (“the best of all possible worlds”), Spinoza (users as “monads”), and Weber (his Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism). Google is seen, not surprisingly, as fundamentally undemocratic and unethical, most particularly through the algorithm that drives it AdWords and the compromised political stance of its relation to China.

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