Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1864-1920
Rationality and
Organization
Background
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBMNDJZHEeI&feature=fvst
Well-to-do family
Sickly child
Physical problems
Mental problems
Background
3
Weber
Pronounced:
“vay-bear”
Comprehensive science of
Social Action
Behavior versus Action
Behavior= move, react, eat etc.
Action=Behavior + Meaning
Different from Other Theorists
9
Examples:
Going to college because your boyfriend
or girlfriend is attending that school
Hitting a person out of anger
Max Weber: Social Action
14
4. Instrumental Rational
(Goal-oriented Rational Action)
Goals & means are rationally chosen
Example:
Earning a college degree in order to get
a good paying job
How to get rich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz81sLCy--c
Max Weber: Social Action
16
3. Competition
4. No government intervention
TR Legitimation & Authority
21
2. Traditional
3. Charismatic
Max Weber: Authority
22
1. Legal-rational authority
Based on impersonal rules
2. Traditional authority
Based on belief in tradition
Passed down generation to
generation
3. Charismatic authority
Allegiance to leader
Leader’s characteristics
Source of change
Ideal-type Bureaucracy:
Clearlydefined division of labor
Rationality
Routinization of tasks
Max Weber: Bureaucracy
27
Major advantage
Calculability of results
Dysfunctions of bureaucracy
Depersonalization
Difficult to deal with individual cases
Personnel are replaceable
Information flows from top-down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TypEb0tbFho
George Tooker paintings illustrate rationality and modernity
MW Max Weber: Class, Status, and Party
28
Status
Prestige
Honor
30
Max Weber: Party
31
Political
Age-based
Race/Ethnicity
Lobbyists