Max Weber's Insights and Errors

Andreski, Stanislav

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“…In other words, Weber's analysis does not easily account for managers who are followed because of their superior ability to address challenging problems. Following individuals because they can resolve dilemmas is rational; doing so does not automatically impose charismatic status upon them but simply indicates that they are authorities in relevant matters (Andreski, 1988).…”

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The decline of authority and the rise of managerialism

Spillane

Joullié

2021

Organization

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Managerialism, as an ideology and management practice, is grounded on a theory of authority. Such grounding has been neglected in the relevant literature since scholars have generally treated authority as a form of power and have ignored the view that authority is also a source of power. Following a review of the construct of authority as it appears in the works of noted social psychologists and critical management authors, this essay argues that Carl Friedrich’s theory of authority as reasoned elaboration reveals two manifestations: authoritativeness and authoritarianism. It is argued here that managerialism draws on authoritarian ideas and practices, whereas management, as traditionally conceived, draws on authoritativeness. To promote authoritative management, therefore, is to resist (authoritarian) managerialism since authority redirects power to technical experts and professional colleagues and thereby limits managerial power.

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The decline of authority and the rise of managerialism

Spillane

Joullié

2021

Organization

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“…Both sides of the sociological divide are, once again, much closer than has sometimes been portrayed. According to those such as Andreski (1984), Weber, with his reluctance to establish universal laws in history, would have advocated a multilineal evolutionist scheme. A multilineal model is undoubtedly developed by Weber, but, as we will see, this cannot lead us to misread it as an attempt to defy the modern narrative of the inevitability of social complexity and progress advocated by positivism.…”

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The “false” debate between positivism andVerstehenin the origins of sociology

Rosa

2017

Human Affairs

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The article revisits the debate between the positivists and non-positivists currents in sociology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, concluding that it is actually a false debate, due to the fact that, beyond their differences, both shared some of the basic principles of the paradigm of modernity. From this historical analysis the article seeks to draw lessons for the social sciences in the present, at a time when these seem to have reached a certain synthesis between the modern and postmodern epistemologies. The article shows us that such a synthesis was already prefigured in the writing of classical theorists as it is, in fact, an ineluctable structural law of science itself if it wants to escape from the trap of skepticism and epistemological nihilism. The article also explores how, as a consequence of the pervasiveness of the modern paradigm, a common ethnocentric bias can be traced in all the fathers of sociology and wonders whether sociology today has actually got rid of this problem.

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“…Two years later I was in Reading as the first tenured lecturer in sociology, coincidentally able to have a hand in the appointment of the first holder of a sociology chair there, Stanislav Andreski (1984), a Weberian in his own inimitable way. He encouraged me to develop organization theory, and in an article in the Penguin Social Sciences Survey (Albrow, 1968) I was able to express my first tentative reservations on Weber’s fact/value distinction.…”

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Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality – a Personal Memoir

Albrow¹

2020

Theory, Culture & Society

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Lighting upon Weber as a history student in the late 1950s led to all round engagement with his work to the present day, beginning with rationality and bureaucracy, passing through appreciation of his synoptic vision of modernity, and arguing for the continuing relevance of his rationalization thesis. This emphasis on Weber’s contribution to understanding the course of modernity led in the 1990s to pointing out that his approach to epochal shift provides the basis for understanding the global age. The ever-developing nature of his thought can be further illustrated in his studies of China.

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Max Weber's Insights and Errors

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The decline of authority and the rise of managerialism

The decline of authority and the rise of managerialism

The “false” debate between positivism andVerstehenin the origins of sociology

Max Weber: From Modernity to Globality – a Personal Memoir

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