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Weber Today
What are the implications for a declining Protestant nation?
https://www.prri.org/spotlight/prri-2021-american-values-atlas-religious-affiliation-updates-and-trends-white-christian-decline-slows-unaffiliated-growth-levels-off/
What is the current state of the iron cage?
What about....Amazon?
The American Dream
According to Jennifer Hochschild, we often think...
-- everyone can pursue the American dream
-- everyone can expect reasonable success
-- hard work will be successful
-- the pursuit of success is linked to virtue.
But who, what, how and why?
How is this connected to Weber?
Rationalization
For Weber, more and more of our lives organized by instrumental rationality--the most efficient ways to get things done.
- drawbacks?
People are no longer driven by values, but by calculated efficiencies (iron cage)
Max Weber
- Interested in tracing the origins of industrial capitalism (it's ethos or "spirit")
- spirit in this sense is a sense of values, not metaphysical--the spirit of hard work
- Why was the most advanced form of capitalism also found in predominantly Protestant countries (US/Europe)?