![]() Status groups - are classified based on 'honor' and 'prestige' assigned. Broadly he classifies those who own property and those who do not. Codified law and written documents -According to Weber, such 'rationalization of life' produces 'profoundly dehumanizing, alienating existence.' ->Class, Status, and Party: Social class - Weber defines social class in terms of individuals' market situation.Impersonal relationships between organizational members and with clients.Recruitment and promotion based on merit.Ideal typical characteristics of bureaucracy: Rational-legal domination - based on rational grounds and anchored in impersonal rules that have been legally enacted or contractually established.Example, bureaucracy According to Weber, bureaucracy is the best form of rational-legal domination.Charismatic domination - rests on the personal appeal of leaders because of their ethical, heroic, or religious virtues.Example, patriarchy (family, religion, monarchy) Traditional domination - is based on belief in the sanctity of tradition.(people willingly obey commands because they see the exercise of power as legitimate) -Three types of domination (or three modes of claiming legitimacy): Domination (or authority) on the other hand is a legitimate use of power. ![]() Power enables one to carry out his will/command despite resistance. Ideal types of social action - used for 'rationalizing reconstructions of a particular kind of behavior.' Example, social actions (both rational and affectual) -Weber's discussion of the concept of domination (or authority) illustrates his use of ideal types of social action.Abstract ideal types - involves abstract elements of social reality.Example: 'protestant ethic' or 'spirit of capitalism' Historical ideal types - rooted in historical particularities.It provides the basic method for comparative study. "An ideal type is formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those one- sidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct." -An ideal type is an analytical construct that serves the investigator as a measuring rod to ascertain similarities as well as deviations in concrete cases. Explanatory understanding - can be gained when we explore the reasons behind that social action According to Weber, ideal types will help sociologists to describe forms of social action and patterns of social organization.Direct observational understanding - can be noted as we witness social action.Verstehen is the term Weber uses, which literally translated into 'understanding' Two types of verstehen: (most everyday action is this type) -Unlike positivist methodology (engaging in the study of social facts), for Weber, sociology should be concerned with understanding social action(behavior). Traditional (habitual) action: action determined by the actor's habitual or customary ways of behaving.Affectual action: action determined by the emotional state of the actor.Value rationality action - that done in conformity with absolute moral or ethical values, independently of any assessment of the probable success or ultimate consequences of such action.Instrumental rational action - rationally calculates and selects among different means according to which best or most efficiently attains the actor's chosen goals.Social action is that behavior that takes into account the behaviors of the others and is thus oriented towards those. sociology should be concerned with understanding social action. ![]() ![]()
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