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Introduction to the Thematic Dossier | Economy and Society: Politics, Practices, Agents, and Institutions
Configurações Revista Ciências Sociais 26 | 2020 Economy and Society: politics, practices, agents, and institutions Introduction to the Thematic Dossier | Economy and Society: politics, practices, agents, and institutions Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Lisbeth Rodrigues, Jeremy Land e Jari Eloranta Edição electrónica URL: http://journals.openedition.org/configuracoes/10367 DOI: 10.4000/configuracoes.10367 ISSN: 2182-7419 Editora Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais Edição impressa Paginação: 7-17 ISSN: 1646-5075 Refêrencia eletrónica Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez, Lisbeth Rodrigues, Jeremy Land e Jari Eloranta, « Introduction to the Thematic Dossier | Economy and Society: politics, practices, agents, and institutions », Configurações [Online], 26 | 2020, posto online no dia 16 dezembro 2020, consultado o 18 dezembro 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/configuracoes/10367 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/configuracoes. 10367 © CICS Dominguez, Rodrigo da Costa; Rodrigues, Lisbeth; Land, Jeremy; Eloranta, Jari - Introduction to the Thematic Dossier: Economy and Society: politics, practices, agents, and institutions. Configurações, vol. 26, 2020, pp. 7-17. Introduction to the Thematic Dossier | Economy and Society: politics, practices, agents, and institutions RODRIGO DA COSTA DOMINGUEZ* CICS – University of Minho LISBETH RODRIGUES** CSG-ISEG – University of Lisbon JEREMY LAND*** University of Jyväskylä and University of Helsinki JARI ELORANTA**** University of Helsínki Interplay of the Economy and Society The economic orientation or the concept of “economic action” (Wirtschaften) intro- duced by Max Weber in his essays on the sociology of economics addresses the issue of satisfying desires for “utilities” (Nutzleistungen) as an exercise of an actor’s control over a certain resource. This resource is, originally, driven and directed towards eco- nomic ends. -
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism Sophus A. Reinert Robert Fredona Working Paper 18-021 Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism Sophus A. Reinert Harvard Business School Robert Fredona Harvard Business School Working Paper 18-021 Copyright © 2017 by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona ABSTRACT: N.S.B. Gras, the father of Business History in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier “traveling merchant,” who accompanied his own goods to trade fairs. Taking this concept as its point of departure, this essay focuses on the predominantly Italian merchants who controlled the long‐distance East‐West trade of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Until the opening of the Atlantic trade, the Mediterranean was Europe’s most important commercial zone and its trade enriched European civilization and its merchants developed the most important premodern mercantile innovations, from maritime insurance contracts and partnership agreements to the bill of exchange and double‐entry bookkeeping. Emerging from literate and numerate cultures, these merchants left behind an abundance of records that allows us to understand how their companies, especially the largest of them, were organized and managed. -
Charisma, Medieval and Modern
Charisma, Medieval and Modern Edited by Peter Iver Kaufman and Gary Dickson Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions www.mdpi.com/journal/religions Peter Iver Kaufman and Gary Dickson (Eds.) Charisma, Medieval and Modern This book is a reprint of the special issue that appeared in the online open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) in 2012 (available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/charisma_medieval). Guest Editors Peter Iver Kaufman Jepson School, University of Richmond Richmond, VA, USA Gary Dickson School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, EH, Scotland, UK Editorial Office MDPI AG Klybeckstrasse 64 Basel, Switzerland Publisher Shu-Kun Lin Production Editor Jeremiah R. Zhang 1. Edition 2014 0'3,%DVHO%HLMLQJ ISBN 978-3-03842-007-1 © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. All articles in this volume are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. However, the dissemination and distribution of copies of this book as a whole is restricted to MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. III Table of Contents List of Contributors ............................................................................................................... V Preface -
Max Weber and the Legitimacy of the Modern State
David Beetharn Max Weber and the Legitimacy of the Modern State Abstract: Max Weber's typology of Iegitimale 'Herrschaft' has provided the basis for the treatment of Jegitimacy in twentieth century sociology and political science. The thesis of the article is that this typology is a misleading tool for the analysis of the modern state, and especially for the comparative analysis of political systems. This is because of basic flaws in Weber's conceptualisation of Jegitimacy itself, and in his account of the norma tive basis of authority. The article offers an alternative, multi-dimensional, account of political Jegitirnacy, and suggests how it might be used to develop a typology of forms of 'Herrschaft' more appropriate to the analysis ofthe modern state. The argument of this article is that Weber's typology of legitimate 'Herrschaft' is fundamentally flawed as a basis for analysing political legitimacy, and especially the legitimacy of the modern state. If my argument is sound, then it has signifi cant consequences, in view of the fact that the large majority of sociologists and political scientists in the twentieth century who have written about legitimacy have either adopted the Weberian typology as it stands, or have used it as the basis for further developments of their own. Even those who have rejected it have failed to establish a wholly convincing alternative, so that Weber's typology is left holding the field, if only by default. I shall begin by briefly reviewing Weber's typology and the uses to which he put it. I shall then show why the categories he developed misrepresent the nature of legitimacy, and serve to confuse rather than elucidate its complexity. -
Authority and Rationality—Max Weber (German, 1864–1920)
05-Allen.qxd 12/23/2004 11:51 AM Page 143 CHAPTER 5 Authority and Rationality—Max Weber (German, 1864–1920) 143 05-Allen.qxd 12/23/2004 11:51 AM Page 144 144—— EXPLORATIONS IN CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY ● The Perspective: Complex Sociology 147 ● The Evolution of Religion 154 ● The Rise of Capitalism: Religion and States 159 ● Class, Authority, and Social Change 164 ● Rationality in Action 172 ● Thinking About Modernity and Postmodernity 176 ● Summary 180 ● Building Your Theory Toolbox 181 Weber’s writings are somewhat schizophrenic....[I]n his volumi- nous works, one can find almost anything one looks for. There is plenty of material for Parsons’ functionalism...and also for Schluchter or Habermas’s rationalist evolutionism. Weber is a legit- imate ally of the symbolic interactionists, as well as an influence upon Alfred Schutz, who in turn influenced social phenomenology and ethnomethodology. On the other hand, modern organization theory and stratification theory could reasonably emerge from Weber’s work, and he could influence conflict sociologists...all these elements are in Weber. (Collins, 1986, p. 11) ax Weber is one of sociology’s most intricate thinkers. Part of this complexity is undoubtedly due to the breadth of his knowledge. Weber M was a voracious reader with an encyclopedic knowledge and a dedi- cated workaholic. In addition, Weber was in contact with a vast array of prominent thinkers from diverse disciplines. As Lewis Coser (2003) comments, “In leafing through Weber’s pages and notes, one is impressed with the range of men with whom he engaged in intellectual exchanges and realizes the widespread net of rela- tionships Weber established within the academy and across its various disciplinary boundaries” (p. -
A New Look at Max Weber and His Anglo-German Family Connections1
P1: JLS International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society [ijps] PH231-474840-07 October 28, 2003 17:46 Style file version Nov. 19th, 1999 International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 2003 (C 2003) II. Review Essay How Well Do We Know Max Weber After All? A New Look at Max Weber and His Anglo-German Family Connections1 Lutz Kaelber2 Guenther Roth’s study places Max Weber in an intricate network of ties among members of his lineage. This paper presents core findings of Roth’s analysis of Weber’s family relations, discusses the validity of Roth’s core theses and some of the implications of his analysis for Weber as a person and scholar, and addresses how Roth’s book may influence future approaches to Weber’s sociology. KEY WORDS: Max Weber; history of sociology; classical sociology; German history; Guenther Roth. “How well do we know Max Weber?”—When the late Friedrich H. Tenbruck (1975) raised this question almost thirty years ago, he had Weber’s scholarship in mind. The analysis of Weber’s oeuvre and the debate over it, fueled by a steady trickle of contributions of the Max Weber Gesamtaus- gabe, has not abated since. Thanks to the Gesamtausgabe’s superbly edited volumes, we now know more about Weber the scholar than ever before, even though the edition’s combination of exorbitant pricing and limitation to German-language editions has slowed its international reception. Tenbruck’s question might be applied to Weber’s biography as well. Here, too, the Gesamtausgabe, particularly with the edition of his personal letters, has been a valuable tool for research.1 Yet the fact remains that what we know about Weber the person derives to a significant extent from 1Review essay of Guenther Roth, Max Webers deutsch-englische Familiengeschichte, 1800–1950. -
Charismatic Leadership and Democratization : a Weberian Perspective 1
CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP AND DEMOCRATIZATION : A WEBERIAN PERSPECTIVE 1 Michael Bernhar d Associate Professor of Political Science The Pennsylvania State University SUMMARY 2 In at least three cases of democratization in Eastern and Central Europe (ECE), charismati c leaders have played an important role in overthrowing the old regime and in shaping the pattern of new institutions . In addition to Lech Wa łęsa in Poland, Vaclav Havel of the Czech (and formerly Slovak) Republic, and Boris Yeltsin of Russia, can be classified as charismatic leaders with littl e controversy . While there are other charismatic leaders in the region, their commitments t o democracy are quite shaky, and thus they fall outside the scope of this paper . The greatest contribution to our understanding of charisma as a social force has been the wor k of Max Weber. His sociological writings on charisma serve as the point of departure for this paper . After surveying Weber's analysis of charisma, this study turns to what his writings tell us about th e relationship between charisma and democracy. It then addresses the question of the impact tha t democratization has on charismatic leadership and use this to interpret the political fortunes of Lec h Wałęsa, Vaclav Havel, and Boris Yeltsin . It concludes with a discussion of the role of charisma i n both democracy and dictatorship in the contemporary era . Despite their pivotal role in the demise of the communist regimes in their countries and thei r leadership during key phases of the democratization process, none of the three leaders have bee n fully successful in translating their visions for their respective countries into reality . -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara the Disenchantment of The
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Santa Barbara The Disenchantment of the World and Ontological Wonder A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies by Martin Becker Lorca Committee in charge: Professor Thomas A. Carlson, Chair Professor Elliot R. Wolfson Professor Andrew Norris June 2019 The dissertation of Martin Becker Lorca is approved. ____________________________________________ Elliot R. Wolfson ____________________________________________ Andrew Norris ____________________________________________ Thomas A. Carlson, Committee Chair March 2019 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This dissertation could not have been finished without the help of family and friends, I would like them thank here: In thank my classmates at UCSB, Dusty Hoesly, Michael Kinsella, Matt Robertson and Sohaira Siddiqui, for their intellectual companionship and friendship. For making possible the practice of reflection as a communal enterprise, I thank my friends: Eva Braunstein, Chris Morales, Samantha Kang, Lucas Wright, and Tim Snediker, who gave life to the philosophical group at Santa Barbara. With deep gratitude, for his precious help in editing and in giving essential feedback, I thank my friend Garrett Baer, with whom, in our philosophical walks at Lake Los Carneros (Goleta)—embodying the old peripatetic tradition—let ourselves to philosophize freely and sincerely. For crucial help editing this work, I thank Garrett Baer, Ryan Kelley, Allice Haynes, Kali Handelman, Kevin Johnston, Alexander Cohen, and Arnulf Becker Lorca. Much of the interpretation of “the nothing” comes from long and deep conversations with Franco Bertossa and Ricardo Pulido. I thank them for raising the question of Being, the one that touches “to the point where our entire nature is so shaken that is will never again be the same” (Heidegger, What is Called Thinking?, 179). -
The Classics in Economic Sociology
I The Classics in Economic Sociology There exists a rich and colorful tradition of economic sociology, which roughly began around the turn of the twentieth century and continues till today. This tradition has generated a number of helpful concepts and ideas as well as interesting research results, which this and the following chapter seek to briefly present and set in perspective. Economic soci- ology has peaked twice since its birth: in 1890–1920, with the founders of sociology (who were all interested in and wrote on the economy), and today, from the early 1980s and onward. (For the history of economic sociology, see Swedberg 1987, 1997; Gislain and Steiner 1995). A small number of important works in economic sociology—by economists as well as sociologists—was produced during the time between these two periods, from 1920 to the mid-1980s. The main thesis of this chapter, and of this book as a whole, is as follows: in order to produce a powerful economic sociology we have to combine the analysis of economic interests with an analysis of social relations. From this perspective, institutions can be understood as dis- tinct configurations of interests and social relations, which are typically of such importance that they are enforced by law. Many of the classic works in economic sociology, as I shall also try to show, hold a similar view of the need to use the concept of interest in analyzing the economy. Since my suggestion about the need to combine interests and social relations deviates from the existing paradigm in economic sociology, a few words will be said in the next section about the concept of interest as it has been used in social theory. -
The Disenchantment of Logically Formal Legal Rationality, Or Max Weber’S Sociology in the Genealogy of the Contemporary Mode of Western Legal Thought
The Disenchantment of Logically Formal Legal Rationality, or Max Weber’s Sociology in the Genealogy of the Contemporary Mode of Western Legal Thought Duncan Kennedy* Introduction Max Weber began his sociology of law with a description of the then present of Western legal thought, along with a brief summary of its pre- vious stages. This appreciation begins with a summary description of the Western legal thought of Weber’s time, as it looks from our present one hundred years later, emphasizing the contrast between the mainstream of his time, now called Classical Legal Thought, and its critics in the “social current.” Part II presents Weber’s sociology of law, comparing and con- trasting his approach with that of the social current. The most striking thing about Weber’s sociology of law, from the perspective of legal the- ory a century after he wrote, is his ambivalent endorsement of legal for- malism. This entailed rejection of the social current’s critique, a critique that is close to universally accepted today. In Part III, I explain Weber’s attitude toward legal formalism as motivated by the internal require- ments of his theory of domination, in which, after the demise of all ear- lier modes of legitimation, the Iron Cage of modernity is held together by bureaucrats defined by their adherence to that mode of legal reasoning. Part IV argues that Weber’s approach was inconsistent with the irration- alist and decisionist strands in his own theory of modernity, a theory that helps in understanding the current situation of legal thought, if we take the un-Weberian step of applying it to legal formalism. -
The Routinization of Charisma
The Routinization of Charisma: Leader-Follower Relationships in the Suzuki Association of the Americas by Christina Rowan An honors thesis submitted to the Organizational Studies Program University of Michigan Winter 2013 Thesis supervisor: Michael Heaney 2 In 1978, one hundred Japanese students joined together with one hundred American students — all musically trained by the Suzuki method — for a tour of three “friendship concerts.” An emerging music education movement originating in Japan, the Suzuki method was based on the idea that all children can develop musical ability. After presenting numerous concerts in the United States with only Japanese students, it was Dr. Shinichi Suzuki’s dream to see an equal number of American and Japanese students perform together.1 Made possible by the financial backing of David Smith, these students performed at the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Atlanta Symphony Hall. While in Atlanta, Smith drew up a series of documents to establish a franchising system for the Suzuki method in the United States. Smith met in private with Dr. Suzuki, founder of the Suzuki method, saying, “We’d like to franchise the Suzuki method in the United States. Would you please sign this paper?”2 Dr. Suzuki did not have any lawyers with him; no aids, no one. He was a very trusting man. Dr. Suzuki signed the paper. At the time of this meeting, the Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA), the organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the spread of Dr. Suzuki’s method in the Americas, was six years old. Soon after Dr. Suzuki’s meeting with Smith, William Starr and Sandy Reuning, two trusted members of the SAA, rode in a cab with Dr. -
A Look at the Protestant Church in the City
Illinois Wesleyan University Digital Commons @ IWU Honors Projects Sociology and Anthropology 1966 A look at the Protestant Church in the city David J. Hauman Illinois Wesleyan University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/socanth_honproj Part of the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Hauman, David J., "A look at the Protestant Church in the city" (1966). Honors Projects. 30. https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/socanth_honproj/30 This Article is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Commons @ IWU with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this material in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This material has been accepted for inclusion by Faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ©Copyright is owned by the author of this document. A LOOK AT THE PR.OTESTANT CHURCH I IN THE CITY by David J. Hauman I Submitted for Honors Work In the Department of Sociology Illinois Wesleyan University Bloomington, Illinois 1966 BUCK MD40RIAL UBRARY IlJ.1'fOIS WJ!'I!iLIY AN Accepted by the Department of Sociology of Illinois Wesleyan University in fulfillment of the requirement for departmental honors. The City And this is a city In name but in deed It is a pack of people That seek after meed (profit) .