Styles of Intellectualism in Weber's Historical Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2292241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clyde W Barrow (0000-0002-6846-3728, Southeastern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-61 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soin.1990.60.1.47 |
| OpenAlex | W2793019009 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
The prevailing concept of the intellectual in contemporary sociology is an ideal type derived from Weber. Intellectuals are understood as politically disinterested, socially unattached individuals, who in their subjective intentions pursue knowledge for its own sake. Weber's ideal type thus provides the action framework for a sociology of knowledge that has been used as a direct counterclaim to Marxist theories of ideology. The author challenges this position, arguing that Weber's sociology of religion embraces important elements of a Marxist theory of ideology and thus presents an ambivalent concept of the intellectual that points toward a historicist sociology of knowledge
Action (physics · Ambivalence · Epistemology · Historical sociology · Historicism · Ideal (ethics · Ideal type · Ideology · Intellectualism · Marxist philosophy · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of knowledge · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Social science and political theory.
Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion as a Sociology of Intellectuals
Ideology and the development of sociological theory
Doing Phenomenology
The Rational Peasant
Making of the English Working Class
Max Weber
The social construction of reality
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Social Theory and Social Structure
Methodology of Social Sciences
From Max Weber
Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Intellectuals in Contemporary Social Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |