Orientador: Josue Pereira da Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-27T08:19:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SantosJunior_Jairdos_M.pdf: 12028243 bytes, checksum: 7d316436e55ab99e915a030da309be4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 / Resumo: Através do estudo da obra de Raymundo Faoro pretendemos, nesta dissertação, responder a seguinte questão: São as categorias weberianas aplicáveis ao caso brasileiro? A escolha deste autor se deve a sua importância dentro do pensamento social brasileiro e a carência, ao menos no nosso conhecimento, de estudos sobre ele. Fizemos um estudo detalhado da obra deste autor, principalmente sobre seu trabalho Os Donos do Poder. Entretanto, outros procedimentos também foram tomados. Diante da questão proposta, estudamos as categorias weberianas que foram utilizadas por Faoro para interpretação do Estado brasileiro. Como recurso para elaborar uma leitura crítica da obra de Faoro, também estudamos as demais obras do pensamento social brasileiro que utilizam as mesmas categorias weberianas / Abstract: By studying the work of Raymundo Faoro, we wish to answer the following question: Do weberian categories apply in the Brazilian case? The choice of Faoro was due to his importance inside Brazilian social thinking, and to the dearth, to our knowledge, of studies of his work. thus we engaged ourselves in a close reading of his works, with special attention to "Os Donos do Poder". Then we proceeded to perform another task. Given our proposed question, we've studied the weberian categories used by Faoro in his interpretation of the Brazilian State. In order to produce a criticaI reading of Faoro's work, we've also studied other works inside Brazilian social thinking that use the same weberian categories / Mestrado / Mestre em Sociologia

Orientador: Renato José Pinto Ortiz / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T08:03:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabien_Jean_M.pdf: 2466415 bytes, checksum: 8f9d1833468fcd9073853dec6d9dcae8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Esse trabalho tem como objetivo comparar Durkheim e Weber, os quais representam figuras emblemáticas nos estudos das sociedades ocidentais modernas, na tentativa de aproximar suas teorias sociológicas à religião. Procuramos destacar, a partir dos estudos epistemológicos e metodológicos deles, alguns elementos que podem nos levar a destacar pontos convergentes e divergentes, tentando explorá-los para ressaltar certa aproximação. Para tanto, no primeiro capítulo expomos uma comparação entre religião e magia, levando em conta noções como sacrifício, culto e rito. Essa comparação tem como objetivo mostrar, de um lado, que em Durkheim ambas são fenômenos sociais e que, por outro lado, em Weber a religião se revela mais racional do que a magia, considerada como uma atividade irracional. Portanto, esse capítulo seria uma articulação em torno da natureza social e racional da religião em relação à natureza social e irracional da magia. Já no segundo capítulo buscamos entender melhor, segundo as concepções durkheimiana e weberiana, o sentido da relação que o indivíduo mantém com os seres espirituais objetos de culto, como Alma, Deus e Espírito, para então delimitar o papel desempenhado pelo sagrado na socialização. Por fim, no terceiro capítulo retomamos o debate, ao mesmo tempo velho e atual, sobre as relações complexas entre religião e política. Nesse sentido, mostramos como em Durkheim o caráter indiferenciado desses dois elementos se incorpora e se funde no conceito de religião civil, enquanto em Weber sua diferenciação mais ou menos radical nos leva à sua sociologia da dominação. Com isso buscamos analisar até que ponto a religião e a política podem se influenciar e interagir reciprocamente, mesmo quando elas se opõem. Dessa forma, esse estudo comparativo trata de alguns temas comuns a Durkheim e Weber, mas essencialmente importantes para a sociologia da religião / Abstract: This work, pursuing a very ambitious goal to compare Durkheim and Weber, try to reconcile the two theories of the sociology of religion as they represent the leading figures in the advent of modern Western societies. It seeks to highlight, starting from their epistemological and methodological studies, elements that show us what is convergent and divergent, while trying to exploit them to find an approximation. In order to develop this idea, in the first chapter there is a comparison between religion and magic, taking into account concepts such as sacrifice, worship and ritual. The objective of this comparison is, on one hand, to show that both in Durkheim are a social phenomenon, and, on the other hand, in Weber religion is more rational than the magic considered as an irrational activity. So, this chapter is a joint around the social and rational nature of religion in relation to social and irrational nature of magic. The second seeks to understand better, according to Durkheim and Weber's designs, the meaning of the relationship the individual has with the spiritual beings objects of worship, such as Soul, God and Spirit, as well as to determine the role played by the sacred in the socialization. Finally, the third chapter resumes the debate, in the same time old and current, on the complex relationship between religion and politics. By comparing, we will try to emphasize, first in Durkheim, their indiscriminate nature that incorporates and merges the concept of civil religion, then in Weber, their differentiation more or less radical which is rooted in its sociology of domination. In this sense, we will see through these two leading sociologists extent how religion and politics can influence each other and interact, even if they disagree. Thus, this comparative study discusses some common themes between Durkheim and Weber, which are essentially important for the sociology of religion / Mestrado / Sociologia / Mestre em Sociologia

My dissertation manuscript studies the democratic theories of three protagonists of European political, legal, and social thought in the first half of the 20th century: Max Weber (1864-1920), Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), and Hans Kelsen (1881-1973). It explores, contextualizes, and compares their respective accounts of how the advent of mass democracy transformed the theory and practice of representative government, in terms of both its overall legal framework (the State) and its internal institutional and political actors (Parliaments, parties, and leaders). At the same time, it places these three authors in the broader horizon of early 20th-century anxieties about the “changes” of liberal parliamentarism and the unprecedented challenges posed by mass politics, reconnecting their work to public and scholarly discussions among leading social scientists and intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s. Sitting at the crossroads of history and theory, the dissertation seeks to highlight the distinctiveness of each author’s normative account of democratic leadership – Weber’s agonistic, Schmitt’s plebiscitary, and Kelsen’s procedural vision – and the largely competing ways in which each of them made political parties foundational to such visions. Urging the readers to capture the enduring echo of these three visions in our present, the dissertation also alerts them to their potential for rethinking the relationship between parties and leaders in early 21st-century representative democracies.

Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2000 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The fundamental perspective of this study is that faith cannot be separated from either tradition or empirical experience. The relationship between theology, as the critical justification of faith, and sociology, as the empirical study of society and religion, is discussed in this perspective. Chapter 1 presents an overview of tradition as a theological problem. The conclusion is that the reformational sola-scriptura-confession is not antithetical to a positive evaluation of tradition, but that reformed theology has often had problems with really taking the historical aspect of tradition seriously. In Chapter 2 it is argued that a dialogue between theology and sociology is both necessary and fruitful. Chapter 3 discusses the philosophy of science, in order to give a perspective on the foundations for dialogue. This discussion also facilitates the choice of sociological partners for discussion. Weber and Berger, as sociologists who take theological themes seriously, are chosen as partners for discussion. Chapter 4 presents a critical evaluation of Weber's sociology. It is argued that his approach to religion is reductionistic, but that it poses questions that should be taken seriously. Among these the question of the influence of the social context on tradition and the problem of routinization of tradition stand out. These problems also surface in the sociology of Berger, as Chapter 5 points out. Berger differs from Weber in that he is a Christian who practices theology. Yet his perspective on religion remains reductionistic. His view that religion is to a great extent determined by the social context finds itself in tension with his view that faith is a fee choice of the individual. This problem is never satisfactorily adressed in Berger's work. The final chapter attempts to give a basic perspective within which theology can both remain true to itself and take sociology seriously. It is argued that thisperspective is found in the viewpoint that humans are neither the passive objects of social determination, nor the active constructors of society. Humans receive the empirical world as a gift, but this reception should be understood as an activity. The conclusion is that tradition is ambivalent. On the one hand it is a necessary tool for ordering experience, but on the other hand it can distort experience. Therefore there is a tension between tradition and experience. Faith should not be tied exclusbely to either tradition or experience, but stands within the tension between the two. Theso/a-scriptura-confession expresses the conviction that faith lives within this tension through the Word of God alone. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie gaan uit van die standpunt dat geloof in die spanningsveld van tradisie en empirie staan. Dit impliseer dat geloof nie losgemaak kan word van 'n positiewe waardering vir tradisie nie, maar dat geloof ook nie teenoor empiriese waarneming gestel kan word nie. Hierdie standpunt word belig deur die verhouding tussen teologie, as kritiese geloofsverantwoording, en sosiologie, as 'n empiriese dissipline wat ook die godsdiens vertolk, te bestudeer. Hoofstuk 1 bespreek die kerklike tradisie. Daar word gewys op die waarde sowel as die ambivalensie van tradisie. Die reformatorieseso/a scriptura word aan die orde gestel om aan te dui dat dit moontlik is om hierdie belydenis te versoen met 'n waardering vir die tradisie, hoewel die Skrif as kritiese norm teenoor tradisie gehandhaaf word. Verder word aangetoon dat die gereformeerde benadering tot tradisie nie sonder probleme is nie en dat veral die historiese aard van die geloofstradisie nie altyd in die gereformeerde teologie verdiskonteer word nie. In Hoofstuk 2 word die keuse vir 'n dialogiese benadering tot die verhouding tussen teologie en sosiologie gemotiveer. Hoofstuk 3 stel die wetenskapsfilosofie aan die orde, ten einde die gespreksbasis sowel as die keuse vir gespreksgenoteduidelik te maak. Die keuse vir gespreksgenote val op Weber en Berger as sosiolce wat beide erns gemaak het met teologiese temas. Die sosiologie van Max Weber word in Hoofstuk 4 bespreek. In die evaluering van sy godsdienssosiologie word aangedui dat Weber se perspektief op die godsdiens reduksionisties is, maar dat dit die teologie voor ernstige vrae stel, waaronder die invloed van die sosiale konteks op die geloofstradisie en die probleem van roetinisering van die tradisie uitstaan. Hierdie vrae kom ook na vore uit die sosiologie van Peter Berger. Berger verskil van Weber daarin dat hy 'n Christen is en self teologie beoefen. Tog bly sy perspektief op die godsdiens reduksionisties en staan sy siening oor die beinvloedinq van die godsdiens deur die sosiale konteks in spanning met sy verstaan van die geloof as 'n vrye keuse van die individu. Hierdie spanning word nie bevredigend opgelos nie. Die slothoofstuk soek na 'n perspektief waarbinne die teologie erns kan maak met die sosiologie, maar ook getrou kan bly aan sy eie aard as geloofsverantwoording. Hierdie perspektief word gevind in die uitgangspunt dat die mens n6g as 'n passiewe objek van sosiale be"lnvloeding, n6g as 'n aktiewe subjek van sosiale konstruering verstaan kan word. In die geloof ontvang die mens sy ervarinqswereld, maar hy is aktief betrokke by daardie ontvangs. Die slotsom is dat tradisie ambivalent is. Aan die een kant maak dit gerigte ervaring vir die mens moontlik. Aan die ander kant kan tradisie die mens se uitsig op die werklikheid belemmer. Daarom staan tradisie altyd in spanning met empiriese ervaring. Geloof staan nie net in die tradisie nie en ook nie net in die ervaring nie, maar in die spanningsveld van tradisie en empirie. Die sola-scriptura-belydenis verwoord die oortuiging dat geloof in hierdie spanningsveld leef uit die Woord van God aileen.

Objectives. Scholars have debated Max Weber's theory of the relationship between religion and capitalism for almost 100 years. Still, the debate is clouded by confusion over Weber's claims about religious doctrine and over the supporting evidence. The purpose of this study is to clarify Max Weber's claims regarding the concept of the calling and the related "anti-mammon" injunction and concept of "good works" and substantiate with historical evidence the religious doctrine Weber describes. Methods. Comparative analysis of early Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was used to flesh out a history of ideas to determine whether evidence exists to support Weber's claims related to religious doctrine. Results. Historical analyses revealed that the concept of the calling pre-dated Luther in the Bible. Luther's innovation was not in his use of the word beruf but in his application of the concept of the calling to the common people and his teaching of that idea. The idea of sanctified work was key in both Lutheran and Calvinist documents. There was an increased emphasis on work and encouragement to accumulate wealth in Calvinist documents. Conclusion. Weber's etymological evidence surrounding Martin Luther's use of the word beruf in his German translation of the bible is idiosyncratic and not important to the transmission of the concept of the calling. Luther's application of the concept of the calling to the laity and idea of sanctified work, however, is the foundation on which the Protestant ethic rests, as Weber claims. Weber's other claims regarding the concept of work in early Protestantism are also supported here. Weber did not overstate the implications for societal transformation in early Protestant theology.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:35:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-12-10Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T21:07:30Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 gigante_lc_dr_arafcl.pdf: 728927 bytes, checksum: 3324fc0a4b972f5ba4c0f305e0f03617 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / A presente pesquisa propõe-se a estabelecer um diálogo com a Sociologia Política de Max Weber, vendo-a como uma área estruturada pelos conceitos de dominação e legitimação, basicamente. Ao contrário da forma de discussão mais corrente que analisa e aplica tais conceitos – bem como os conceitos a eles imediatamente relacionados, como poder, organização e luta – queremos trabalhar a articulação entre idéias e interesses enquanto uma dimensão implícita nestes conceitos, pois que mantém estreita afinidade com eles. Isto significa que as idéias se inserem em cursos de legitimação de interesses materiais e de interesses ideais. Pretendemos demonstrar que existem, no pensamento de Weber, três níveis cruciais desta articulação, quais sejam: o epistemológico, o teórico sistemático de sua Sociologia da Religião e o de sua Sociologia Política, sendo que este último se objetiva a partir da ênfase nas justificações internas em que se apóia a dominação. Derivamos daí a principal questão da pesquisa: como as idéias se inserem em cursos de legitimação específicos? / This study aims to establish a dialogue with Max Weber’s Political Sociology, deeming it as an area structured by the concepts of domination and legitimation, basically. Unlike the most common approach, which analyzes and applies such concepts – as well as the concepts immediately related to them, such as power, organization and strife – we would like to work the articulation between ideas and interests as an implicit dimension in these concepts, for it bears close affinity with them. This means that ideas are inserted in courses of legitimation of ideal and material interests. Our intention is to demonstrate that there are, in Weber’s thought, three crucial levels of such articulation: the epistemological, the theoretical systematic of his Sociology of Religion and that of his Political Sociology, the latter being objectified from the emphasis on the internal justifications which support domination. From that argument we derive the main question of this study: how are ideas embedded in specific courses of legitimation?

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Agronomia e Medicina Veterinária, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Agronegócios, 2013. / Submitted by Albânia Cézar de Melo (albania@bce.unb.br) on 2013-08-13T14:57:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_TiagoParreiraCarvalhoGuimaraes.pdf: 2603646 bytes, checksum: c6e5fc9fbce14de040be165c01250775 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Guimaraes Jacqueline(jacqueline.guimaraes@bce.unb.br) on 2013-08-14T11:47:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_TiagoParreiraCarvalhoGuimaraes.pdf: 2603646 bytes, checksum: c6e5fc9fbce14de040be165c01250775 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-14T11:47:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013_TiagoParreiraCarvalhoGuimaraes.pdf: 2603646 bytes, checksum: c6e5fc9fbce14de040be165c01250775 (MD5) / O presente estudo tem como objetivo compreender como se deu o conflito entre duas diferentes lógicas econômicas sobre o crédito rural no período que vai de 1965 a 1990 e quais pressupostos sustentavam a busca de legitimidade dessas lógicas e o consequente controle sobre as diretrizes da política do crédito rural. Adotou-se como referencial teórico elementos da Teoria Geral dos Campos de Pierre Bourdieu conjugado com proposições de Max Weber sobre racionalidade da gestão econômica. Este procedimento foi possível pela ênfase que os autores dão a questão dos conflitos entre interesses antagônicos dos agentes sociais. Isto permitiu propor a explicação do SNCR como uma proposta política de modernização do setor agrícola brasileiro que tem a origem de seus conflitos e disputas em um antagonismo de interesses construídos sobre diferentes percepções econômicas. Este estudo adota a pesquisa documental e bibliográfica e entrevistas presenciais semiestruturadas como procedimento analítico. Tratamos basicamente das duas principais “crenças econômicas” no crédito rural como sendo derivadas de diferentes padrões de racionalidade econômica. Estas geram lógicas de atuação, ou estratégias, de disputa sobre a forma e finalidade do financiamento que seguiu a trajetória prescrita por Max Weber, no sentido do desenrolar histórico ser na direção de uma gradual racionalização formal em detrimento das expectativas dos agentes valorativos, submetidos as forças mais amplas da política econômica nacional, situação típica de sociedades modernas. A análise ressalta uma oposição previsível entre, de um lado, os agentes portadores de uma racionalidade formal ligados às autoridades monetárias controladoras das fontes de recursos da política de crédito. Por isso conseguiam submeter o SNCR as diretrizes da política macroeconômica tornando o crédito rural um subcampo extremamente susceptível as conjunturas macroeconômicas. A força e legitimidade dos “formalistas” derivavam dos argumentos técnicos de cunho fiscal e monetário. São os indivíduos ligados a esse grupo que conseguiram predominância dentro do BB e transitaram com maior facilidade entre governo e banco, tornando os funcionários “valorativos” quadros anacrônicos da instituição. De outro lado, os agentes mais valorativos orbitavam em torno da política agrícola, principalmente, as organizações ruralistas que formavam grupos de pressão junto aos parlamentares ligados ao setor, que se utilizavam de maneira geral a noção de serviço público para manter as características econômicas do crédito rural. Nesse mercado representavam o papel de demandantes. ______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This study aims to understand how was the conflict between two different economic logics of rural credit in the period from 1965 to 1990 and assumptions which supported the search for legitimacy of logical and consequent control over policy guidelines for rural credit. It was adopted as theoretical elements of the General Theory of Fields of Pierre Bourdieu conjunction with Max Weber's propositions about rationality of economic management. This procedure was made possible by the emphasis that the authors give the issue of conflicts between antagonistic interests of social agents. This allowed propose the explanation of SNCR as a policy proposal to modernize the Brazilian agricultural sector which has the origin of conflicts and disputes in an antagonism of interests built on different economic perceptions. This study adopts the bibliographic and documentary research and semi-structured face to face interviews as analytical procedure. We deal basically the two main "economic beliefs" in rural credit as being derived from different patterns of economic rationality. These generate logics of action or strategies of dispute over the shape and purpose of the funding that followed the path prescribed by Max Weber, in the sense of unfolding history is toward a gradual rationalization rather formal agents' expectations evaluative, submitted the broader forces of national economic policy, a situation typical of modern societies. The analysis highlights a predictable opposition between; on the one hand, agents bearing a formal rationality linked monetary authorities controlling the sources of funds of the credit policy. So could submit the SNCR guidelines macroeconomic policy making rural credit a subfield extremely susceptible to macroeconomic conjunctures. The strength and legitimacy of the "formalist" derived from technical arguments of fiscal and monetary nature. Individuals are connected to this group who managed predominance within the BB and moved with ease between government and bank officials making "evaluative" frames anachronistic institution. On the other hand, the agents more evaluative orbited agricultural policy, especially ruralists organizations that formed pressure groups together parliamentarians linked to the sector, which used to be the general notion of public service to keep the economic characteristics of rural credit. In this market accounted for the role of plaintiff.

This study was an examination of businesses that became big businesses in the United States during the time period between the years of 1861 and 1890, a period of time frequently referred to as the “big business era.” The purpose of the study was to identify actions taken by businesses that enabled them to become and remain big businesses. A secondary purpose of the study was to show that these actions were explained by theories of Karl Marx and Max Weber. The results of the study showed that businesses which took specific actions were able to become and remain big businesses and these actions were explained by the theories of Marx and Weber. The results of the study demonstrate the ability of classical sociological theory to explain macro-level social change.

This dissertation offers a novel quantitative method for assessing an actor's subjective temporal orientation. Our method involves the use of supervised machine learning techniques in concert with natural language processing tools and linguistic principles. We suggest our method may offer a clandestine technique for extracting aspects of an actor’s temporal orientations from right behind their back. This capacity occurs because of the unique ways time references are reflected in language syntax. This reflection does not simply occur in face-to-face spoken interactions, but also resides in recorded vocal transcripts and within textual documents articulated by speakers for a social audience (e.g., political speeches). . From a social theory point of view, we argue that our technique can help objectify some of the major links theorists have long made between the temporal features of mind, subjective meaning, and social processes. Temporal orientation has long been defined as a tripartite mental process. Edmund Husserl famously defined this process as involving retention (a mental focus on past), presentation (a mental focus on the present) or protention (a mental envisioning of the future). From a pure phenomenology perspective, Husserl’s innovation was to link this mental interlocking process with meaning-making. For Husserl, it was directly through an actor’s temporal orientation that meaning became variably constituted and the problem of subjectivity emerged. From a sociological point of view, it is primarily through Alfred Schutz’s formulation of social phenomenology that Husserl’s tripartite system was opened to accommodate the influence of the social in meaning-making. This opening has possessed a long-standing contradiction. For Schutz, endogenous social structure could affect where an actor temporally orients. The resulting implication is that social structure could have a direct effect on how actors assign specific meanings in social systems. Even more, social structure could facilitate shared temporal orientations among actors. However, Schutz also promoted the idea that different temporal orientations could explain how different meanings could be assigned to the same social object by disparate actors. This possibility served as the centerpiece of Schutz’s well-known methodological critique of Max Weber’s direct linkage between subjective meaning, motive, and empathetic based interpretations of social action. To carry out our efforts to quantify how the subjective processes of temporal orientation appear to be influenced by endogenous social processes, we employed our algorithm on three different text-based data sets. We suggest these datasets possess strong reflections of the social world. The first dataset entails a collection of matched twitter tweets that correspond to Trump’s reelection bid and Biden’s challenge during the 2020 period. In this dataset, our method illustrates how both candidates appear to have different temporal orientations despite being bounded by a similar social event. We suggest this finding may reflect the relationship between what Schütz called inner duration and the influence of external stocks of knowledge (i.e., external structures.) The second dataset corresponds to a recorded conversational transcript of the Cuban missile crisis, taken from President Kennedy’s Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm) on the 6th of October in 1962. Using our algorithm, we offer objective measures of homogenous temporal orientations of committee members that are consistent with meso-group conformity. We suggest that our method may offer a novel way of measuring group conformity in general. The third dataset consists of the State of the Union Corpora (SOU). In this dataset, we apply our algorithm to identify changes in temporal orientation occurring among a single President’s entire collection of SOU speeches. Furthermore, we compare the average temporal orientation of the Presidents in relation to various social categories, such as party affiliation and societal events. The scope of the Presidents inventoried for temporal orientation is restricted from Eisenhower to Biden.