Introduction to Weber

Tribe, Keith

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“…The above is in stark contrast with the ‘impersonal’ element of Weberian bureaucracy (Weber, 2019 [1921]), which is a mode of bureaucracy anchored in the civic value of impartiality. The interviewee’s motivation for introducing a predominantly domestic value into a field traditionally grounded in civic worth becomes apparent in the very final part of the quote, which introduces yet another form of worth.…”

Section: Findings: Espoused Values Versus Retrospective Discoursementioning

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What Lies Beneath: Organisational Responses to Powerful Stakeholders

2022

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This article takes recourse to a particular branch of French Pragmatic Sociology, namely, Boltanski and Thévenot’s ‘orders of worth’ paradigm, as a lens through which to both explore the misalignment between espoused values and retrospective discourses and illustrate the underlying motivations behind decision making in an organisation within the creative industries sector. By virtue of its contributions at the organisational, social and sectorial levels, our study contributes to extant debates pertaining to individual agency versus structural constraints as well as demonstrating the heterogeneity of modes of formal compliance to wider institutionalised legitimacy. In so doing, it builds upon recent work that seeks to broaden the notion of value in the creative industries, while, simultaneously, calling for greater heterogeneity in policy making in the sector through an ongoing process of ‘creative conflict’.

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Section: Findings: Espoused Values Versus Retrospective Discoursementioning

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What Lies Beneath: Organisational Responses to Powerful Stakeholders

2022

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“…In the last century and a half, a variety of approaches to conceptualizing and operationalizing SES have been proposed. “Classical” approaches of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as those of Marx (1967) and Weber (1968), focused on SES as (role-based, group-based, individual) differences in social power, prestige, and cultural and political attitudes. The “resource” treatments of the mid-20th century (e.g., Duncan, 1961; Hollingshead, 1957, 1975; Siegel, 1971) focused on income, education, and occupational prestige and how to combine these into composite indices.…”

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Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward

Antonoplis

2022

Perspect Psychol Sci

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Socioeconomic status (SES; or social class) is considered an important determinant of psychological and life outcomes. Despite this importance, how to appropriately conceive of and measure it remains unsettled. In this article, I argue that SES is, under conventional conceptions of the construct, an unmeasurable construct and present an alternative strategy for studying socioeconomic conditions. I make this argument using several lines of analysis. First, a literature review of 20 years of psychological research on SES reveals that psychologists rarely define SES theoretically (79.6% of articles did not) but call a great number of operationalizations measures of SES (147 in total). Second, current recommendations for studying SES permit contradictory predictions, rendering the recommendations unsatisfactory. Third, the appropriate measurement model for SES inhibits accumulation of results across studies, which makes studying the construct practically impossible. To rectify these issues, I reconceptualize SES as a set of socioeconomic conditions and develop a measurement strategy for studying these conditions. I conclude by considering implications for ongoing research on socioeconomic conditions and for interpreting past research on SES.

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“…As Di Iorio and Chen (2019) have shown and I have mentioned earlier, this kind of approach bears a very strong structural and theoretical similarity to the Weberian model of methodological individualism. According to the Weberian view of society, social reality is constructed from, below, the level of individual action (Weber, 2019: 79–102). Because the reality constituted by individual and social actions is continuously changing due to particular agents’ behavior, individual actions can radically change the social conditions in which individuals initiate their action (Weber, 1949: 84).…”

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“…Therefore, the paper aims to present a possible interpretation of Weber’s argument through the concept of elective affinity, which, in my opinion, fixes crucial implications for social science thinking. I argue that Weber’s model, in contrast to mechanical descriptions (Hayek, 1958: 1–32; Demeter, 2016; Di Iorio and Chen, 2019; Weber, 1949), attempted to capture social phenomena through interactions between elements with heterogeneous qualitative properties (Weber, 1949, 2019). This effort, in turn, bears a very strong resemblance to the operation of social science models examining the functioning of complex systems (Epstein and Axtell, 1996; Linares, 2018; Di Iorio and Chen, 2019).…”

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“… 9. Whose main characteristics, which distinguish it from other types of capitalism, are that it is based on rational accounting, permanent and peaceful market exchanges, calculation of profits, formally free labour, monetary valuation, factory production, separation of household and factory, and the maximisation of profits (Hidas, 2020: 211; Weber, 2019: 281–284). …”

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Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic

Kollár

2021

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This article aims to reconstruct a possible interpretation of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism through the concept of elective affinity, which, as I have read, records fundamental implications for social science thinking. I argue that, in contrast to mechanical descriptions, Weber’s model sought to capture social phenomena through interactions between elements with heterogeneous qualitative properties. This effort, in turn, bears a very strong resemblance to the operation of social science models examining the functioning of complex systems. In line with this, I proceed as follows: first, I briefly outline the backbone of the argument of The Protestant Ethic, and then, through the concept of elective affinity, show how it can be fitted into one of the defining lines of current social science approaches. In line with this, I attempt to discuss the argument of The Protestant Ethic in the context of agent-based models. I argue that Weber’s approach can be seen as essentially a prototype of agent-based modeling.

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Introduction to Weber

Cited by 14 publications

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What Lies Beneath: Organisational Responses to Powerful Stakeholders

What Lies Beneath: Organisational Responses to Powerful Stakeholders

Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward

Max Weber and the chemistry of the Protestant ethic

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