The Structure of Social Theory by Anthony King

Author:Anthony King [King, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780415652063
Google: faXmlVZw-UwC
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-01-15T03:38:20+00:00

Although there is the characteristic equivocation, Weber’s point is explicit: in the end, ideas determine human history and these ideas are divorced from their social context. They no longer have their existence only within the life of a status group but take on an autonomy and force of their own, imposing on the individual from above. Weber’s interpretive sociology certainly prioritised ideas as part of a group’s cultural consciousness, but those ideas were always inseparable from the group. Ideas are important sociologically only insofar as the members of social groups orient themselves collectively to them. Groups exist only insofar as humans consciously recognise their membership of them. Shared understandings are consequently decisive in human social life. Humans have to recognise their social relations with each other and understand what these relations enjoin. In much of Weber’s writing, he successfully demonstrated the sociological decisiveness of status groups with their common understandings but in decisive elements in his oeuvre, in The Protestant Ethic, The Sociology of Religion, and in much of his description of ideal types in Economy and Society, he fell into the very reductive dualism for which he berated Marx.

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