Notes of Readings on Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft by Max Weber (Folder IJ 3 f)
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[103]Notes p. 1 Sociological terms
| SOCIOLOGY | “Sociology” - a discipline aiming at an understanding of social behavior ad its causes & efforts. |
| p. 6 Speculation & Empirism in sociology |
M.W. goes to great trouble to show that (a) adequacy ___________tion is an insufficient (b) probability of actual occurrence is also needed Pol: principles of behiavor actual institutional patterns |
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16 x) adequate interpretation
XX) actual occurrence
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[104]Notes 2 M. Weber: Sociolog. terms
| pol. semi-functionalism |
M.W.'s _________ seems to be very far reaching, since the “______ method” which he advocates appears to be dependent upon the persons definition of ______ on non-individualistic ________. |
| anti-psychologist | {Sophology} irrelevent for sociological deduction. Behiavor is neither p____ nos unp_____ Sociology not more “psychological” than physiological or mechanical. |
| mentalism | It's not __ that that ___ is W. physical is psychological “other der Sinn ____ ____ exemples den jemand meint, ist doch ____ |
| against Psychology | “Rationale ____ ___ ______: …werden uns macht durch ein ____ _________ durch “psychologische {Erinnungen}” |
| Pol: “verstehend” refus to psychology | “verschieende psychologie” “a help is __ understanding of irational behavior (not of rational behavior) |
{politico + sociology: non-psych.
{irrational __: {psych.}
{personal life = irrational
{social } life = rational
{political }
[105] M. Weber: Sociological categories
Notes 2a
__ there a sociol. of _____? _____ ____ we “understand” then…
| ANTI-PRIM.ECON METH. INDIV. |
“On understanding (Emp____aheit) of the motives of danger is not, |
| SCHAFFLE | Stress on “methodological individualism” (also Popper) - ____ of the individual behaves “{understandly}” Schäffle only regarded as a starting point with his onomatistic assumption or “functions” the _____ institutional brokes in human society. |
| ANTI-INDIVIDUALIST | individualistic method _____ no indiv. valuations or ideals - the opposite a “non-______ misunderstandings”. |
| DEF. OF HOLISM | Polanyi: though functional - holistic - concepts are ___ly ______ of sociological _______ their __________ and _________________ in this regard is undeniable. |
| FUNCTION & MOTIVE | This in response to Othmar Spann's insistence on the need for deciding what a thing or entrepreneur or ______ is for? What ___ he does? For how otherwise on we decide about the importance or an importance of any part of his behavior? Yes this is the __________. |
[106] Notes 3
| 4 types of motives | The 4 motives of social behavior Motives: 4 kind of motives 1. Mean-end 2. valuational 3. emotional 4. ____________ MW: this grouping is _______ exhaustive. rational means here: “means to an end - in which case only (i) is rational Pol: if rational means understandable, then there are innumerable other types of behavior (induced by awe, magic, play, duty, hate) MW seems to achieved __… Actual motives almost always “{ansied}” he adds (_____ ie from his point of _____ is ______ _____ ________ 1-4 |
| p13 | Social relations: Behavior _____ on the other person + probability of its actual sociology deals with typical occurrence of probable references of behavior; no with the ex___________ of important events (as history does) Pol: “chance” ought to be translated: probability social order: validity of ___ order us measured by the actual social relations are being approved of simplest “validity” is the assume of approved of the actual community (Vergemeinschaftung) |
| “VALID+ORDER” p26 Community contractual? p22 |
social behavior oriented on the feeling of community ({Zusammengehenheit}) contractualisation (Vergesellschaftung) Social behavior aiming at rational compromise on ___ conjunction of interests. |
[107] M. Weber: sociological terms
Notes 4
| p22 COMPROMISE & CONJUNCTION of ______ |
this may be the result aprovement (_________, contract) Tönnies's fundamental work ____ mentioned |
| TÖNNIES | also p. 1 |
| _________ of social relations are both communal or contractual, he says. MW | |
| Polanyi: Critique of M.W's “found motives” |
MW (a) 4 motives of social behavior are neither exhaustive nor characteristic of any thing (except an idealized materialism) (b) 2 types of social behavior no ____, ____ great _____ 4 are {need} M.W.'s purpose: to establish “materialism as equivalent to _____ human existence. |
| MARX | sociological approach too much influenced by Marx and Engels and via Tönnies and Sombart. |
| MAINE | SH Maine via Tönnies “_______”: struggle ____ said not to be restricted to comp____. Ruthless selection just as usual inside “communities (formal as) |
| STRUGGLE SELECTION |
Selection a normal process. Every social |
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M Weber: Sociological terms
| SELECTION | order results is something of selection(of the type ______ by that order) |
| Pol: confer: Ruth Benedict _____ etc Malinowski | |
| Pol: MW realised the limited importance of the distinction struggle & cooperation since communal forms of groups are not exempt from ruthless selection (of in family, marriage, ______ ____ etc) | |
| LANGUAGE | |
| INTEREST | |
| Pol: What […] |
[…] Pol:
(Verkehrwirtschaft)
Pol: What
[109] M.W: social classes _______ _____ ____!!!
So M Weber:
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| Pol. Critique |
Critique of MW: A middle clan Marxist - {scheme} of Marxist “extremely middleclan, economy is identified with the market and pure _______ becomes marketism. He was {formalised} by Marx's economistic ideas, but looked upon the market as the archetype of the 'economic'. The … |
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| DEFINITION | Polanyi's critique continued: Economic |
| (a) gain = any surplus (b) excluding it to non-material | |
| UTILITARIAN PREJUDICE |
Bentham + Freud: felicitous calculus +s< […] MW analysis of market |
[112] Notes 9. M. Weber: Sociological terms in economics
| LEVELS of Treatment MARIANNE WEBER |
MW deals with the {sozial} on 3 levels: (a) gen. soc. terms |
| Cf. Menger | M. Weber’s definitions for collective apparent process are vague on the crucial point. If market motives are the essentially “economic” what in the {veisme} of gainful they certainly are – then the economical be the production of material goods, for the two are {enlivef} different. In effect, if the first definition is mainted there exist no specifically economic objects - if the latter is {achieved} to, then there exist {tnuf} objects, but no specific motives to them. The first position was consistently maintained by Menger, Robbins, etc.; the second is by myself. |
[113] Notes 10 - M. Weber
Scarcitydrops: substantive definition| M. Weber: | Economy --direct: --indirect: |
Economy as scarcity action […] […]
Pol: Max Weber ____ ____ order into the field for the simple reason that he centered his investigation on profit-seeking action - on the _____ in the gain-seeking person to the extent _____ elements were absent, the thought of it as merely a quasi-economy…
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| important for my critique | … - well, not according to the substantive definition! “choice equaled with exchange à la catallactics” |
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Date: January 1947[2]
KPA: 07/09, 100-126