Category: Max Weber

Rationalization is the action of attempting to explain or justify behavior or an attitude with logical reasons, even if these are not appropriate. It is a process of change by which a society goes through. In rational ways of thinking were talking about calculation, specifically were trying to calculate what is the most efficient way…

Marx and Engels expected the progressive overthrow of capitalism more than a century ago. Marx assumed a culture that was tailored to the nation-state and the dynamics of a capitalist economy would eliminate all social distinctions that impede the development; capitalists and workers would become nationwide groups. The analysis of England’s emerging working class revealed…

Where power is the legal, official authority, or influence over others, authority is the moral, legal right, or ability to control. Steven Lukes and Max Weber provide interesting ideas into power and authority. Steven Lukes wrote about 3 dimensions of power: issue, agenda, and manipulation. Issue is about a person winning an argument having the…

In Max Webers article Disenchantment, Enchantment, and Re-Enchantment he talks about the link between Protestantism and the elimination of magical and supernatural forces in the world. He believed that, along with Enlightenment, the Reformation was a powerful catalyst of a great historic process, he called the disenchantment of the world, where the magic withers away,…