Max Weber & Modernity: Crash Course Sociology #9
This week we are wrapping up our overview of sociology's core frameworks and founding theorists with a look Max Weber and his understanding of the modern world. We'll explore rationalization...
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Take a second and imagine life just over five hundred years ago. Say you’re in Europe, at the tail end of the Middle Ages. If you had to name the biggest change between then and now, what would you choose? Maybe the internet, or industrialization, or the incredible advances in health and medicine. Maybe you'd think back to Marx or Durkheim and say that it was the shift from feudalism to capitalism. These are all good answers. But Max Weber had a different one. The most important change wasn’t technical, or economic, or political. The biggest change, he said – the one that best distinguishes the modern world from the traditional one – was a difference in the way we think. [Theme Music] Like most of the theorists we've studied so far, Max Web...
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Take a second and imagine life just over five hundred years ago. Say you’re in Europe, at the tail end of the Middle Ages. If you had to name the biggest change between then and now, what would you choose? Maybe the internet, or industrialization, or the incredible advances in health and medicine. Maybe you'd think back to Marx or Durkheim and say that it was the shift from feudalism to capitalism. These are all good answers. But Max Weber had a different one. The most important change wasn’t technical, or economic, or political. The biggest change, he said – the one that best distinguishes the modern world from the traditional one – was a difference in the way we think. [Theme Music] Like most of the theorists we've studied so far, Max Web...
