weber the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism

He said, “Well, you think this is morality? I will show the immorality of morality, what you think is moral.” Right? This is certainly Freud. “Tell me what your class position is and I will tell you where your ideas are coming from.” Right? Right? Marx certainly, with the idea that well the dominant ideas of each epoch are the ideas of the dominant class, and therefore you think what is in your mind is your idea. Let’s subject your consciousness to critical scrutiny.” I think all four do share this argument.

They say, “What is in your mind is not necessarily what you think it is. That means they all offer critical analysis of what is in your mind. In one way or another, all four of them call be called critical theorists. There is one important common feature in all four authors, and somewhat distinct from the theorists we studied so far. I could give you a lot of nice and juicy stories, what I have, but unfortunately I have to withhold myself.

Would love to talk a lot about his life I won’t have time. Professor Iván Szelényi: Now also I would like to spend a couple of minutes kind of wrapping up some issues about the four authors, what we covered in the test–right?–Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber, just to help you to get an overall sense–right?–what the bottom line is, and what the similarities and differences are. Similarities and Differences Among Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Weber Foundations of Modern Social Theory SOCY 151 - Lecture 16 - Weber on Protestantism and CapitalismĬhapter 1.

Weber the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism