#max weber

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Der Einfall ersetzt nicht die Arbeit.

The idea does not replace the work.

Max Weber (1864 – 1920), German sociologist, lawyer, and national and social economist

[nobrashfestivity]

Max Weber, Crouching Nude Figure, 1910

[thrashunderpressure]

This looks like such a banger black metal cassette demo

[oldsardens]

Max Weber - Burlesque

[spilledreality]

On conflict theory

Basically, the first serious attempt at creating a scientific field of archaeology was done by 19th century Germans, and they looked around and dug some stuff up and concluded that the prehistoric world looked like the world of Conan the Barbarian: lots of “population replacement,” which is a euphemism for genocide and/or systematic slavery and mass rape. This 19th century German theory then became popular with some 20th century Germans who... uh... made the whole thing fall out of fashion by trying to put it into practice. After those 20th century Germans were squashed, any ideas they were even tangentially associated with them became very unfashionable, and so there was a scientific revolution in archaeology! I'm sure this was just crazy timing, and actually everybody rationally sat down and reexamined the evidence and came to the conclusion that the disgraced theory was wrong (lol, lmao). Whatever the case, the new view was that the prehistoric world was incredibly peaceful, and everybody was peacefully trading with one another, and this thing where sometimes in a geological stratum one kind of house totally disappears and is replaced by a different kind of house is just that everybody decided at once that the other kind of house was cooler. The high-water mark of this revisionist paradigm even had people saying that the Vikings were mostly peaceful traders who sailed around respecting the non-aggression principle. And then people started sequencing ancient DNA and...it turns out the bad old 19th century Germans were correct about pretty much everything. The genetic record is one of whole peoples frequently disappearing or, even more commonly, all of the men disappearing and other men carrying off the dead men's female relatives. There are some exceptions to this, but by and large the old theory wins.

from Mr & Mrs Smith, cf Margulis vs Dawkins, Graeber vs Hobbes, and critiques of Randall Collins's (via Weber) conflict theory

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Max Weber, Chinese Restaurant, 1915, oil+charcoal+collage/canvas (Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC)

[felsefebilim]

Kalvinizm Mezhebi ve Kapitalizme Etkileri

John Calvin, Papa'nın otoritesini red ederek, kul ve Tanrı arasında hiçbir aracının bulunamayacağına inanmıştır. Ona göre kanunları koyan ve anlatan tek bir kaynak vardır; o da İncil'dir.

John Calvin'in bu temelle ortaya çıkan görüşleri, detayları ile Kalvinizm adı altında bir mezhep haline gelmiş; tüm Avrupa'ya yayılmış hatta farklı toplumsal-ekonomik süreçleri de etkilemiştir.

Peki Bu detaylar Nelerdir ?

Kalvinizm, tek kaynak olarak İncil'i aldığı için Hristiyanlığın özüne dönmeyi ve özündeki kural ve dogmaları benimsemeyi amaçlar. Toplumsal ve ahlaki açıdan insanların dürüst ve çalışkan olmasına çok önem verir. John Calvin, çalışkan ve dürüst insanların Tanrı'nın gözünde bir din adamı kadar değerli olduğunu söyler. Aynı zamanda bu dünyada mütevazi bir hayat sürmek gerekir der. Çünkü lüks mallar, lüks hayat, eğlence ve sarhoşluk insanı amacından saptırır ayrıca tembelleştirir. Tembellik de başlı başına bir günahtır.

Kalvinizm, ayrıca insanları ikiye ayırır. Seçilmişler ve seçilmemişler... Seçilmiş olanlar, yaşamlarında doğru kararlar alırlar, başarı olurlar. Bir diğer deyişle seçilmiş ya da seçilmemiş olduklarını hayatlarındaki başarılarına göre anlayabilirler. Seçilmiş olan insanlar hem dünyadaki yaşamlarında hem de ahlaki yönden sürekli gelişirler. Çünkü aynı zamanda çalışkan ve dürüst insanlardır. Seçilmemiş olanlar ise doğuştan lanetlenmiş, tembelliğe düşkün kişilerdir. (Özellikle inançsızlardan ve kutsal kitaba inanmayanlardan oluşurlardı.) Kalvinizm'e göre seçilmiş ya da seçilmemiş olmak doğuştan gelir çünkü Tanrı, var etmeden önce bazı insanları kurtulmak bazılarını da cezaya çarptırılmak üzere (Adem'in işlediği büyük günah için) seçmiştir. Bu durum zamanla değiştirilebilecek bir şey değildir... Yani bu insanın kaderidir ve kader de Tanrı tarafından belirlenmiştir, özgür iradeden bağımsızdır...

Kalvinizm Diğer Alanları Nasıl Etkilemiştir?

Max Weber'e göre Kalvinizm, iktisat ve ekonomi tarihini etkilemiş ve özellikle kapitalizmin doğuşunda önemli bir rol oynamıştır. Çünkü söylemleriyle; insanları son derece disiplinli ve tutarlı bir şekilde çalışmaya teşvik eder, zenginliği, eğlenceyi, lüksü neredeyse yasaklar ve günah olarak belirler. Bu durum da sömürü modelini güçlendirir; fakirlerin, dürüst ve çalışkanlıkla övünüp, zenginliği arzulamamasına neden olur. Hatta bu kişiler, dürüst ve çalışkanlıkları nedeniyle gerçek seçilmişlerin kendileri olduğuna inanır...

[thebestpartofwakingup]

Note: this does NOT have to be the sociologist/writer you AGREE with the most — obviously this is the #marxism website — but the one you personally found the most interesting or enjoyed writing about the most.

I was always the odd one out in my sociology classes because I ADORED the constructivism lens I just thought it was a really fun way to analyze different writings and films (I ended up in a lot of sociology classes that liked to assign like. Film reports? That’s how I learned I hate film-based classes having to watch a film for a grade is so much worse than reading a book for a grade)

Yet most of my professors and other classmates treated Durkheim as the “hard” intro writer and the constructivism lens as the “hard” lens to write for even though I always found it the easiest to universally apply (because it’s just like. Social symbolism? A thing present in all forms of media related even tangentially to culture or human experiences? How is this not the easiest lens to use for every sociological “use 1-X lenses to analyze this story/article” assignment ever?)

ALSO: NOT including an “other” category because I want to keep this focused on these three in particular since, at least in the US, they are more or less taught as the first three “specific” or “initial” lenses of sociological analysis (which is why Marx isn’t my favorite because I got real sick of having to read the first section of Das Kapital the start of every semester since he it was ALWAYS assigned as a “warm up” in EVERY FUCKING CLASS)

[racefortheironthrone]

So, the right wing party here in NZ (National, with further right leaning Act as support) just won the election in a landslide victory over Labour - for someone who is unsurprised yet still disappointed and kind of worried, do you have any words of advice, encouragement or even just positive vibes?

I don't have a specific analysis to offer, because to be honest it's hard to find Aotearoa political news and I haven't been able to follow events particularly closely.

However, as a social democrat, I'm perfectly familiar with the concept of potentially dispiriting political setbacks; it sort of comes with the territory of being a social democrat. So what I can say is that people like us have been here before and have found a way to work through it until better times came, and have thought through how to get through the bad times in eloquent and meaningful ways.

My personal touchstone is the famous passage from Max Weber's "Politics as a Vocation:"

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth --that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today. Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say 'In spite of all!' has the calling for politics."

[arinewman7]

The Brass Candlestick

Max Weber

Gouache and gold leaf collage on paper, 1914

[gregor-samsung]

" La democrazia è esigente poiché esige non soltanto comportamenti coerenti con obiettivi definiti attraverso la libera competizione elettorale. È esigente soprattutto perché vuole che quei comportamenti abbiano un fondamento etico, di moralità pubblica, di rispetto di principi e di criteri. La democrazia non è […] un regime politico privo di un corpus di principi etici, fondato su un relativismo assoluto. Al contrario, a suo fondamento stanno alcuni valori, fra i quali preminenti la libertà e il dominio della legge. Nel perseguimento di equilibri democratici, derivanti dalle loro preferenze e dai loro voti, i cittadini decidono quanto e quale spazio dare ad altri valori quali la giustizia sociale, l'eguaglianza e la solidarietà. Le decisioni su queste assegnazioni di importanza e di preminenza sono democraticamente sempre (ri)discutibili: suscettibili di essere ritoccate, cambiate, addirittura rovesciate. In questa discussione quanto più possibile pubblica, aperta a tutti coloro che sono interessati, un ruolo particolare, che significa più importante anche perché marcato da maggiori responsabilità, spetta agli intellettuali, agli opinion-makers, a quello che potremmo definire il potere culturale. Quanta maggiore influenza hanno le loro idee e le loro prese di posizione tanta maggiore responsabilità porteranno gli intellettuali. "

Gianfranco Pasquino, La democrazia esigente, Il Mulino (collana Tendenze), 1997¹, pp. 68-69.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Es ist durchaus richtig, und alle geschichtliche Erfahrung bestätigt es, daß man das Mögliche nicht erreichte, wenn nicht immer wieder in der Welt nach dem Unmöglichen gegriffen worden wäre.

It is absolutely true, and all historical experience confirms it, that the possible would not have been achieved if the world had not continually striven for the impossible.

Max Weber (1864 – 1920), German sociologist, lawyer, and national and social economist

[fidjiefidjie]

📰 "The Sunday Tribune" 1913 📰

Aquarelle 🎨 de Max Weber

Bel après-midi 👋

[morlock-holmes]

So I started reading Max Weber and it turns out that "protestant work ethic" isn't just a fancy name for the idea that hard work is good sometimes.

[oldsardens]

Max Weber - New York

[ravelintherain]

dear diary today i mistook max weber and mark webber in a gay fanfiction