Religion, Political Culture, and the Weberian Tradition

1978 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Laitin
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Protestant Ethic ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism

A summary and reinterpretation of Weber's Sociology of Religion and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism provides the framework within which four contemporary studies in political culture, which purport to be in the Weberian tradition, are examined. The framework distinguishes three levels of analysis in which “religion,” as a social fact, can be defined. The social, economic, or political consequences that can be attributed to religious adherence are different depending on the doctrine of the charismatic founder, the practical religion, or the practical religion of the converted. The author suggests a new, perhaps more fruitful agenda for research based on the methodological arguments of the paper.

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.

The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert S. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Free Blacks ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Slave Emancipation ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Life ◽  
Fourth Wave

This chapter examines the comparative differences and similarities between slave regimes in the Americas and how those differences influenced the post-manumission integration of Africans. In particular, it considers some of the methods and questions that animated the comparative slavery school as well as the implications of junking the comparative model. The chapter first highlights the social, economic, and political consequences of differences among slave regimes in the Americas for African Americans before proposing a research agenda for fourth-wave scholars that expands the scope of analysis of Afro-Latin America beyond the frame of slavery to include fuller explications of free black life. Several areas worth investigating are discussed, including the economic role of slaves and the human capital they accumulated under slavery; the rate and importance of manumission as well as the legal and effective support given to it by the slave-owning elite; the role of the free colored class well before final slave emancipation; and the attitude of elite toward slavery, slaves, and free blacks.

scholarly journals Globalization and Security: The Economic, Social and Political Aspects

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (520) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
M. D. Kramchaninova ◽  
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V. V. Vakhlakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Economy ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Security

This research underlines the growing importance of critical studying the role of globalization in the context of the problem of ensuring human security. In the global open economy, direct changes in the nature of economic activity and social interaction significantly increase the weight and importance of the factors that affect social, political and economic stability. By carrying out an analysis of the data reflecting the results of the social, economic and political consequences of COVID-19, the authors try to provide useful insights into the patterns inherent in the economic, social and political processes. Studying the dynamics of pandemic development allows to examine in more detail the connection between the economy, social security and political stability, paying attention to the nature of social, economic and political processes and the scale of their interdependence. According to the results of the research, the main threats arising from the pandemic in the field of economic, social and political components of national security have been established. It is displayed that the social, economic and political security spheres within the State are interrelated. Due to the relationship between them, the lack of stabilization in one of these areas can generate potential danger and changes of negative nature in other areas. Most of the risks and threats identified by the authors flow out of each other, which makes them also interrelated. In the view of the authors, public expectations as to political and economic interactions in the field of ensuring national and global security require the government to make significant changes and transform its view on important aspects of the organization of social, economic and political life of society, in accordance with global challenges.

Global Risks and Conflicts: The Social, Environmental, and Political Consequences

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 829-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Suša
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Environmental Processes ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Political Governance

Socio-political conflicts relating to survival on this planet have become pressing over the last few decades. Global risks and conflicts are developing within the context of global capitalism with an evident conjunction of environmentally and socially destructive changes. The aim for a critical theory of globalization is to develop further analysis of this conjunction by studying social and ecological crises. Today we see a conflict between environmental justice and risk distribution related to the problems of growing social inequality and poverty. Global capitalism is characterized by an evident conjunction between destructive environmental changes, and social, economic and political (governance) crises. The complex of global transformations brings ever greater interdependence between economic, political, technological, social and environmental processes. Many negative consequences become increasingly unsustainable and less manageable.

scholarly journals A Theoretical Appraisal of Political Behavior: Actors, Processes and Consequences

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Hamd Ejaz
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Political Alienation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Holistic Manner

The study of political behavior constitutes a vast subject. Political behavior has many subjected to multiple paradigm shifts of research and the outcome has always been a formation of new theories which explain how the political behavior taking place at all levels of analysis- global, regional, and national and individual levels, has evolved. Political behavior has been sometimes oversimplified to include behavior which is related to legislation in one way or another. It is for this purpose, that this paper differentiates between ‘social’, ‘economic’ and ‘political’ behavior and points out how there can be multiple areas of convergences between all of them. Mostly, this paper presents the various modern theoretical precepts related to political behavior in a holistic manner so as to cover the topic by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach. Therefore, the subject in question, borrows concepts from a range of disciplines including political sociology and political psychology to explain how socialization is rooted in political culture and how it is transformed into ‘public will’- as quoted by Rousseau through the processes of voting. The paper will also seek to explain the possible degenerate forms of political behavior including political violence, genocide and political alienation.

scholarly journals Economics and politics in Russia: On the eve of an acute crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-113
Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Mau
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
Acute Crisis

This article presents an analysis of the key challenges facing the global economy, as well as the impact of these challenges on Russia. It addresses main collisions that have emerged in recent years, including the proliferation of etatism and populism, increasing social and political polarization, the growing importance of national issues vs the global agenda, as well as the social, economic and political consequences of using digital technologies against the backdrop of the global economy spiraling into an unprecedented crisis. The pandemic and its global economic impact are analyzed within the context of the 2008–2009 global financial crisis. This is the foundation which we set for discussing Russia’s economic agenda.

Multiple-source Record Linkage in a Rural Industrial Community, 1680–1820

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve King
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Multiple Source ◽  
Demographic Analysis ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Broad Outline

Re-creating the social, economic and demographic life-cycles of ordinary people is one way in which historians might engage with the complex continuities and changes which underlay the development of early modern communities. Little, however, has been written on the ways in which historians might deploy computers, rather than card indexes, to the task of identifying such life cycles from the jumble of the sources generated by local and national administration. This article suggests that multiple-source linkage is central to historical and demographic analysis, and reviews, in broad outline, some of the procedures adopted in a study which aims at large scale life cycle reconstruction.

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