Max Weber and the Dynamics of Rationalized Domination

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ID7095628
AuthorsJ Cohen (0000-0003-3044-086X), Joanna E Cohen (0000-0002-3869-3637, corresponding author)
Year1972
Volume1972
Issue14
Pages63-86
Publication date1972-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTelos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X
PublisherTelos (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3817/1272014063
OpenAlexW2332280608
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The forms of domination, and the possibilities for freedom in modern industrial society were the major concerns of both Marx and Weber. Both rejected a mechanistic notion of progress, according to which economic development is automatically accompanied by cultural, moral and human development. Both recognized the central contradiction implied by the process of industrialization — the contradiction between an unprecedented increase of productive power, and the corresponding increase of domination and cultural impoverishment. However, Marx and Weber differed radically in their assessments of modern society. A fundamental belief in the possibility of the overcoming of capitalism structured Marx's approach to given manifestations of capitalist domination

Capitalism · Contradiction · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Industrialisation · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Power (physics · Productive forces · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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