Sociology 402 Principles of Sociology

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Sociology 402Principles of Sociology

• Lecture on Max Weber

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I. Biography tormented academic

1. Wanted to establish sociology as profession
   (calling)
2. Wanted to accommodate radical and conservative
   theories
3. Wanted to establish sociology as a value free
   discipline

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II. Sociological/Theoretical Approach

• A. Perspective Liberal (philosophically)
• B. Model Interactional model
• 1. indeterminate
• 2. contingency
• 3. unlike dialectical and functional

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Interactive Models
society
individual
government
culture
economy
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(II. Sociological/Theoretical Approach continued)

• C. Level of Analysis Organizational macro but
  not institutional
• D. Focus Political
• 1. what motivates political action?
• a. class life chances
• b. status lifestyle
• c. party power
• 2. types of social action (brief excursis from
  EC)
• 3. why do people obey authority?
• a. legitimacy
• b. types of legitimate authority

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Model of Individual action and Organizational
Legitimacy
Types of Legitimate Authority
Types of Social Action
traditional
traditional
affective
charismatic
value rational
legal rational
instrumental rational
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III. Theory/Explanation of Social Change
rationalization

• A. Shift from traditional to legal-rational
  authority
• B. Charismatic leaders and social movements
• C. Routinization and institutionalization

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Model of Social Change
other factors
other factors
return to traditional (established) institution
failure
traditional (established) institution
social movement
routinization
modern legal rational institution
charismatic leader
other factors
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IV. Method Historical-Comparative

• A. Procedure
• 1. interpretive
• 2. typification
• 3. Generalization

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Table 1 Ideal Types of Modern Nations
Distinguished by Private Ownership and Political
Stability
Political Stability Extent of Private Ownership Extent of Private Ownership Extent of Private Ownership
Political Stability Total Partial None
Stable Capitalist (U.S. and Great Britain) Social Democratic (France and Finland) Communist (Cuba North Korea)
Unstable New Capitalist (Iraq and Afghanistan) New Social Democratic (Hungary and Poland) New Communist (Venezuela Nicaragua)
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(IV. Method Historical-Comparative--continued)

• B. Value Free Sociology
• C. Applications
• U.S. Protestantism and Capitalism
• 2. Modern university as bureaucracy