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- Title
Reading Marx.
- Authors
Blum, Alan F.
- Abstract
This paper attempts to clarify the concept of rationality in Max Weber's sociology of religion. Three new terms: rationalism, rationalization, and rationality, are used to distinguish the different meanings Weber gives to rationality. Efficient orientation of means to ends (rationalism) is distinguished from the systematizations (rationalization). Rationality, finally, is the control of action by ideas. Rational social action is produced only by powerful irrational motives, and it holds a distinct place in Weber's sociology of ideas.
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 1973, Vol 43, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.1973.tb01148.x