The Sociology of Max Weber

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The Sociology of Max Weber

01 Mar 1970-British Journal of Sociology-Vol. 21, Iss: 1, pp 108

About: This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 31 citations till now.

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Entrepreneurial action and the Euro-American social science tradition: pragmatism, realism and looking beyond ‘the entrepreneur’

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Tony J. Watson¹•Institutions (1)

University of Nottingham¹

09 Jan 2013-Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look to other social sciences such as sociology, as well as to history and the philosophy of science to shift the focus away from 'entrepreneurs' and onto the much broader phenomenon of entrepreneurial action or "entrepreneuring" in its societal and institutional contexts.

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Abstract: Entrepreneurship studies are dominated by the disciplines of economics and psychology and work within a limiting methodological frame of reference; a ‘scientistic’ and individualistic framework that dominates the US-led mainstream of research. To achieve a more balanced scholarship, it is helpful to look at an alternative style of research and analysis which has deep and intertwined European and American roots. This looks to other social sciences such as sociology, as well as to history and the philosophy of science. Its adoption would encourage to shift the focus away from ‘entrepreneurs’ and onto the much broader phenomenon of entrepreneurial action or ‘entrepreneuring’ in its societal and institutional contexts. Such a shift would open up a greatly expanded range of research questions and enable a better balance to be achieved between attention to individual entrepreneurial actors and their organizational, societal and institutional contexts. A pragmatist and realist frame of reference, which recognize...

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...As Freund (1972, 91) explains, ‘His intention was certainly not to assign a higher place to interpretation than to explanation’; Weber argued for considering the objectively existing ‘real’ world as well as subjective meaning-making subjective factors....
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Ninety-Eighth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (to January 1973)

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John Neu

01 Jan 1973-Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences

TL;DR: The ninety-eighth Critical Bibliography,* which includes 2666citations, is the nineteenth to be classified according to the system established in 1953, and is both chronological and by subject.

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Abstract: The ninety-eighth Critical Bibliography,* which includes 2666citations, is the nineteenth to be classified according to the system established in 1953. The main purpose of the classification has always been, in the words of its founder, George Sarton, \"to satisfy the needs of historians of science in general rather than those of historians of particular sciences\". While the classification is both chronological and by subject, preference is given to the former. The reader who wishes to find all references to a particular subject, therefore, must examine several sections of the bibliography.

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The Disregard for Weber's Herrschaft

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Koen P.R. Bartels¹•Institutions (1)

University of Glasgow¹

01 Dec 2009-Administrative Theory & Praxis

TL;DR: The great relevance of Max Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy for understanding modern public administration is insufficiently acknowledged as mentioned in this paper, and critical examination of the claims made to support "new c...

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Abstract: The great relevance of Max Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy for understanding modern public administration is insufficiently acknowledged. Critical examination of the claims made to support "new c...

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...The first doubts about the validity of antibureaucracy arguments originated in the detection of the ideal typical method fallacy in functionalistic analyses (see Freund, 1972; Leivesley et al., 1994; Mayntz, 1971; Van Braam, 1980)....
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Cyberpunk-Web 1.0 "Egoism" Greets Group Web 2.0 "Narcissism": Convergence, Consumption, and Surveillance in the Digital Divide

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Kym Thorne¹, Alexander Kouzmin¹•Institutions (1)

University of South Australia¹

01 Jan 2008-Administrative Theory & Praxis

TL;DR: The question of paradigm shift or paradigm continuity in the virtual worlds of controllable, and exploitative, existence needs to be canvassed as discussed by the authors, where Web 1.0 hubris seems to be augmented by a newer, Web 2.0-based propaganda, and related, commercial discourses involving the putative "liberating,” politico-economic contours of cyberspace.

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Abstract: The question of paradigm “shift” or paradigm “continuity” in the virtual worlds of controllable, and exploitative, existence needs to be canvassed? Web 1.0 hubris seems to be augmented by a newer, Web 2.0-based propaganda, and related, commercial discourses, involving the putative “liberating,” politico-economic contours of cyberspace. The “democratizing” and “developmental” gradients of the “Digital Divide”, externally and internally, have now been subsumed within a new “politics of fear”; a new hegemonic discourse of “terrorism” and “security” – so much so – that echoes of past debates about the profundity of ICT developments and democratic, social impacts begin to sound like dystopian subversion. Neo-liberal cyberspace, Web 1.0, or Web 2.0, based, is a coercive space, fraught with vulnerability and exploitation.

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25 citations

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...Despite the claims of the “digital-ati,” it remains most important not to forget Weber’s admonition “not to confuse technological efficiency with economic viability” (Freund, 1972, p. 161)....
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...Technology only properly becomes an economic issue when “the question of relative scarcity and cost arises” (Freund, 1972, p. 161)....
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The Imperative of Reason and Rationality: A Politically?and Historically?Aware Netizen's Rejoinder

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Kym Thorne¹, Alexander Kouzmin¹•Institutions (1)

University of South Australia¹

01 Jan 2007-Administrative Theory & Praxis

TL;DR: In this paper, the Fried rich-Finer debate of 1940/1941 is re-visited not only in a comparativist re-casting of the democratic project and the vacuum of Weberian discourses but also in the context of the emerging, Ne oliberal agenda of the agentic Sovereign Individual within the globalizing grand narrative of cyberspace.

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Abstract: This paper deals with the celebrity-like status accorded to U.S. pub lic administration theorists, in context and out of context. The Fried rich-Finer debate of 1940/1941 is re-visited not only in a comparativist re-casting of the democratic project and the vacuum of Weberian discourses but also in the context of the emerging, Ne oliberal agenda of the role of the agentic Sovereign Individual within the globalizing grand narrative of cyberspace.

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...This culminated in ideal-typing sophistication which has so bedevilled positivist social science (Freund, 1972). The ambivalence in Weber (1947) over the contradiction between equality and freedom, between administration based on discipline and that based on expertise remains unresolved and controversial....
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...This culminated in ideal-typing sophistication which has so bedevilled positivist social science (Freund, 1972)....
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...Friedrich’s (1958) ontological fear of collective agency and conflict has been a definining characteristic of such social science (Kouzmin & Dixon, 2006), contrasting with Weber’s agentically-driven hermeneutics (Freund, 1972)....
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...402) acutely indicated, Friedrich was fatally compromised by this allegiance to “technical expertise as a competing guideline for responsible administrative conduct”—an allegiance that never approached Weber’s (Freund, 1972) actual and potential elaboration of the political, economic, cultural and spiritual Ideal Typing of differing modes of Capitalism....
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...…by this allegiance to “technical expertise as a competing guideline for responsible administrative conduct”—an allegiance that never approached Weber’s (Freund, 1972) actual and potential elaboration of the political, economic, cultural and spiritual Ideal Typing of differing modes of Capitalism....
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