Lecture 14 Flashcards
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Short bio or Weber
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- German thinker
- born in 1864 in Orford
- Wealthy merchant family
- father = liberal
- mother = strict piotist (protestant)
- had no followers
- isolated because of political ideas
- died in 1920 from leumonia (aged 56)
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What is Weber well known for?
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- For his work on charismatic authority and bureaucratic legal authority
3
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What is emanationsit or reductionist philosophy?
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- To come from an essence
- starts with basic premise that reality is infinite
- Classical thinkers had fantasy that we could develop things that would reflect reality
4
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How does Weber view Emanationist philosophy?
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- anti-emanationist thinker
- Weber says that the idea that we could develop things that would reflect reality is a fantasy
- because our concepts can’t capture complexity of the reality
- —- because reality is changing
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Explain how Weber views reality as changing
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- Our concepts transform the real, and we dont know the effects it will have on the real
- complexity in his thinking, also irrational
- no science can give an understanding of reality
- think of concepts as limited
- treat concepts like tools
- practical understanding of SOCI
6
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critiques of Weber “reality is changing”
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- knowledge is limited, we must be humble as knowledge producers, must recognize our concepts have limited validity
7
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Value judgement in the classroom
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- in 1913 but revised in 1917
- conflict generated when presented
- ## translated from German
8
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What’s a value judgement?
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- practical evaluation of a phenomenon having to do with approval
- The practical evaluation of social facts as practically desireable or undesireable
- practical standards, ethical standards or world views
- it’s a recommendation, an apraisal that we should or should not do something
- Sepearting facts from recommendations is tricky but important
9
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What are facts ?
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- logically demonstrable or empiracally observable
10
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Weber asks.. should teachers only be teaching facts or value jedgements?
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- older generation believed it was teachers duty to teach moral truth to students
- Weber disagrees because “how can we determine what is ultimately just?
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Why does Weber find it unethical for teachers to impose their version of moral truths onto students ?
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- teachers should teach how to distinguish the two
- purpose of university is to train students to think impartially, come up with own morals, and in methods of thinking
- prof needs to be imparting intellectual integrity
- they should ensure to also present opposing views
- classroom is supposed to be objective
- should not use classroom to persuade students of their own morals
12
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What are tactics that teachers use and what does Weber think about it ?
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- statesmen like compirmize which is find a comprimise between 2 decisions and no objective fact
- Weber says; science is not about comprimise, it is about the scientific truth
13
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Value free science
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- Goal of sciene is to arrive at logical and factually correct results
- Also, goal is to study things that matter to us
- – Weber “ I can care about research, but results will still be factual and meet criteria
14
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what is value revelance or orientation?
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- The motivation to study something
- researchers have values and they can study what interests them
- science is valuable
- qas long as you are clear about what you got and how you got it
- ## context driven
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What is the job of philosophers and not sociologists?
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- Determining the validity of a norm
- not the same methods, tools and constraints
