Max Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism' (Part 1)
In this episode, we begin a close examination of Max Weber’s famous study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. The text is sur...
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Chasing Society
This Podcast introduces and explains sociological thinkers and thoughts.
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Max Weber on the Rise of Rational Capitalism
In the episode, I outline Max Weber's idea of modern, rational capitalism. What defines it and what makes it rational? References: Carr...
Max Weber on Domination, Law and the Rational State
In the third episode in my series about the rationalization of society, I will attend to another important manifestation of the rationalizat...
Max Weber on Modern Bureaucracy
In this episode we are getting serious. We are going to talk about Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy and we are going to find out why b...
The Rationalization of Society: Prologue
In this podcast series, I want to take a deep dive into the rationalization of society. In this first episode, I want to set the stage for t...
Pierre Bourdieu on the Peasant and His Body
In this episode, I will attend to one of the lesser known texts of Pierre Bourdieu: The Peasant and His Body . The text was published as a c...
Simmel's Metropolis and The Mental Life (1903)
In this episode, I attend to Simmel's famous text The Metropolis and The Mental Life which was published in 1903. It seems as if this o...