Sociology

Max wetber: part 2 Legitimacy :  valid commands from the authority Authority :  Legitimate power Types of Authority: Rational legal: based on rules of law , rules Charismatic: charisma, grace ,miracles  e.x :  Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi Traditional Authority: based on tradition e.x  : yesterday kings and chief of tribes etc Social Action: Instrumental-Rational(Wert Rational): efficient pursuit of goals, calculating advantage and disadvantage. Value Rational:(Zweck-Rational) Guided by values  always compelled by demand or code of conduct . Traditional Action: Determined by habit or log term custom .e.x : standing for national anthem. Affective Action: display of unchecked emotions e.x : parents crying during children's wedding. The Protestent Ethics : book :the protestent ethics and spirit of capitalism  for weber :  certain protestent ethics in protestinism help in capitalisation   e.x : rationalising princip...

Max weber : part 1 Birth: 21 April 1864 Sociology is science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action casual explanation of Social Action casual explanation of its cause and effect. Weber thinking was strongly influence by william Dilthey Also influenced by Henrich Ricke t Individual Social Action Ideal Types: pure categories of mental construct Verstehen (understanding/interpretation) is what differentiated sociology from other social sciences. sociology is different from other social science for its methodology. Rationalism: Too much rules and constraints. Disenchtment Too  many calculations in the world

Emile Durkheim part 2 Suicide:  Egoistic excessive individualization not integrated no social support and guidance depression ex: protestents people as studied by durkheim  Altruistic: too much integration  individual needs are less important than society needs. anomic : moral confusion deregulation  financial crisis fatalistic: excessively regulated example: Prision Books by Emile Durkheim: elementary forms of religious life division of labor in society moral education the rules of sociological methods

 Emile Durkheim  Pioneer in the field of sociology Positivist and used deductive approach in study Influenced by august comte Society suigeneris  Believed in rational and scientific lens Sociology is different from other subjects because its methodology Two types of society  (a) Normal  (b) Pathological social facts : charcteristics social chacteristics and determinants which are not biological or physiological external to individual  endure the rest of time goes for generations coercive in nature  example : suicide , marriage, wearing formals to job interviews,morality , crime  morality system of rules, serving the common good deviance : it is essential and functional later developed merton's strain theory elements of religious life : totemic society of Australian tribe. we are not worshiping God but society itself.