#weber

[transmutationisms]

Re: last post, if you ever have the time i'd love to hear your thoughts about puritanism and the way it's talked about online.

i kind of already bitched about this here but i find it irritating and counterproductive when people jump to diagnose a social problem as being "because of puritanism" because a) invariably the social value or taboo in question is something that also applies to like every other subset of christianity as well as other religions / systems of social control, so the only thing they're actually zeroing in on is the fact that in the usa, of these groups, puritans exerted a historically anomalous amount of social influence in parts of the colonial period, but more importantly b) it's terrible analysis because it blames an ideological position instead of engaging with the material realities and factors driving whatever tension or problem is on the table; in the classic case this means blaming capitalism itself on puritanism, which is so ass-backwards i rly don't see how anybody ever lets this pass as 'leftist' discourse; capitalism develops as forces of production change over time, and what weber calls the accompanying 'work ethic' is much better situated within a framework of biopolitics that is capable of explaining how and why the state comes to view its populace and their bodies as biological resources that can be worked, controlled, and cultivated for its benefit

#weber #<- multipurpose tag

[pustoe-mesto]

WATCHER (2022), dir. Chloe Okuno

“I spend all day looking after my father, he's very sick. And so, sometimes I go to the window and just look at people going about their day. I know it is a sad hobby. But no one has really noticed before. ‘You've really become a sad old man now,’ I thought. ‘Dreaming up a pretty girl who's finally looking back at you.’ But then you waved. And I thought that you were saying hello.”

#help #i'm this close from shipping it #watcher movie #watcher 2022 #chloe okuno #julia #maika monroe #weber #burn gorman #thriller #horror #new horror #psychological horror #slasher #horroredit #women in horror #scream queen #final girl #blood #gore #gifs #my edit #trope: local creep #trope: death and the maiden #villian x protagonist #slasher x final girl

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

and what have we learned from this venn diagram? absolutely nothing of value

#opera tag #opera #venn diagram #let anyone among you who has never made an overly specific venn diagram cast the first stone #or something like that #der freischütz #the freeshoot #stiffelio #peter grimes #weber #carl maria von weber #verdi #giuseppe verdi #britten #benjamin britten #do not yeet the stones ye hypocrites! #edit: ‘savannah a hermit is technically not clergy’ well CLOSE ENOUGH

[opera-ghosts]

Exactly 202 years ago today, on June 18, 1821 Carl Maria von Weber conducted the world premiere of his opera "Der Freischütz" in the Royal Theater Berlin. An overwhelming success.

The two postcards from 1904 and 1903 show the romanticism of this work.

#opera #classical music #music history #bel canto #composer #classical composer #aria #classical studies #Carl Maria von Weber #Weber #Der Freischütz #postcard #conductor #virtuoso #Romantic era #German Romantische Oper #Romantic music #romantic period #Romantic composer #classical musican #classical musicians #classical history #musician #musicians #diva #prima donna #maestro #chest voice #historian of music #music

[chessboxingstreetwear]

UNUSED x weber

#unused #weber #japanese fashion #japanese brand #japanese streetwear #distressed #tshirt #t-shirt #mickey mouse #grunge #vintage

[annabellegrinch]

#Annabelle #grinch #youtube #Annabelle Grinch #brad geiger #dieter weber #dieter #weber #rudolph grinch #Giselle schroder #Schroeder #schröder #oscar gauss #leonhard euler #georg schroder

[gallagherobrienmarzenwebergrinch]

Gallagher O'Brien Märzen Weber Grinch

#Gallagher #O'Brien #Märzen #Weber #Grinch #time travel #time #travel

[roughridingrednecks]

Mr. Weber

#weber #jason w #cigarette #smoker #chest tats #redneck

[crownedstoat]

Australian Chrysler Valiant Hemi Six

#1970's #Australian style #Chrysler Valiant #Hemi Six #Weber

[acvillagerdeathmatch]

#acnh #animal crossing #city folk #fandom polls #new horizons #new leaf #wild world #Tiffany #Weber #Gaston #Chelsea #Eli a #bubbles #Boone #buzz #Agnes

[diabolus1exmachina]

 Triumph TR4 Racing

Registered in England for the first time on the 29th March 1962, the owner decided, irrespective of any costs, to convert the Triumph to the same specs as a period works rally car, starting with a (strengthened) bare shell. Included in the conversion was the installation of a roll cage to FIA regulations and the hard top was permanently bolted onto the body. To save weight, mudguards and boot lid in aluminium were fitted. The engine was overhauled and equipped with a sports camshaft, twin Weber 45 DCOE side-draft carburettors and a stainless-steel exhaust system resulting in a healthy power increase to 120 hp. The chassis was optimised with stabilisers, sports dampers, vented disc brake rotors with four piston callipers to the front and 15-inch Compomotive aluminium rims. The interior received sports seats with a Sabelt racing harness, a sports steering wheel as well as a trip master and a set of stop watches. 

#Triumph TR4 #Weber #FIA #modified

[transmutationisms]

can you talk a bit more about weber (im refering to a post you made earlier today i think)? i know a bit about the protestant ethic theory but not really the historical context in which it was written nor how it's used today. thanks!

so, weber's argument is essentially that protestant (specifically calvinist and puritan) theology played a major causal role in the development of capitalism in northern europe following the reformation. his position was that protestant ethics, in contrast to catholicism, placed a high moral value on secular, everyday labour, but also discouraged the spending of one's wages on luxury goods, tithing to the church, or giving overmuch to charity. thus, protestants invested their money in business and commercial ventures instead, turning the generation of capital into a moral endeavour and venerating hard work and economic productivity as ways to ensure one's soul was saved (as the buying of indulgences was not an option for protestants).

this is a bad argument. at core it is idealist, subordinating an economic development to religious ideology. weber never explains how the actual, material economic changes he wants to talk about were effected by a set of ideas; he doesn't consider the possibility that the ideas themselves reflected in some way the material and economic context in which they were developed; he doesn't differentiate between protestantism as a causal factor in the development of capitalism, versus the possibility that capitalism and protestant conversion both resulted from some other factor or set of factors. <- these types of problems are endemic to 'history of ideas' aka 'intellectual history' because merely writing a history of the (learned, published) ideas circulating at a given time doesn't tell you jack about how and whether those ideas were actually implemented, how common people reacted to them or resisted them, what sorts of material circumstances the ideas themselves were formulated amidst, and so forth.

in the case of weber, it's very easy to poke holes in this supposed relationship between protestantism and capitalism. even in western europe alone, we could look at a country like france, which was quite catholic, never became predominantly or even significantly protestant, and yet also industrialised not long after, eg, the netherlands and england. we could also look at what historian michael kwass calls "court capitalism" in 18th-century france, which was a largely non-industrial form of capitalism that depended on the catholic king's central authority in order to ensure a return on investment. france at this time had a burgeoning luxury culture and a centralised, absolutist government that was closely entwined with the powerful catholic church—yet it also had economic development that is recognised as early capitalist, along with growing social and economic tensions between the nascent bourgeois and petit-bourgeois classes and the aristocracy. this is not even close to being the earliest example of capitalist or proto-capitalist economic development (some predates the reformation!), and again, this is within western europe alone—we could and should also point out that capitalism is not solely a european phenomenon and can and does coexist with other, radically different, religious ideology (i have problems with jack goody's work but this is something i think it can help elucidate).

weber argued that the 'spirit of capitalism' was no longer dependent on the protestant theology that had initially spawned it—but again, here we see issues with idealist methodologies in history. at what point, and how, does this 'spirit' become autonomous? what is it that has taken hold, if weber is not talking about the 'protestant ethic' itself and is also not interested in analysing the material changes that comprise capitalism except as effects of some underlying ideology? well, it's what he sees as a general shift toward 'rationalisation' and 'disenchantment' of the world, leading to an understanding of late 19th- and early 20th-century capitalism as a kind of spiritually unmoored servitude to mechanism and industry. this in turn relates back to weber's overall understanding of the legacy of the 'scientific revolution', which is another can of (bad) worms. there is a lot to say about these elements of weber's thought, but for starters the idea that europe was the progenitor of all 'scientific advancement', that it then simply disseminated such knowledge to the rest of the world (the apotheosis of the centre-periphery model, lmao), and that europe has become 'disenchanted', ie irreligious, as a result of such scientific advancement... is just patently bad analysis. it's eurocentric, chauvinistic, and simply demonstrably untrue in like twelve different ways.

anyway, when i see conservatives and reactionaries cite weber, i'm not surprised. his arguments are conservative (his entire intellectual paradigm in this text was part of his critique of marx and the premises of materialist / contextualist history). but when i see ostensible leftists doing it, often as some kind of dunk on protestantism (or christianity more generally, which is not even a good reading of weber's own understanding of catholicism), it's more irritating to me. i am not interested in 'leftisms' that are not materialist. weber's analysis is a bad explanation of how and why capitalism took hold; it doesn't even work for the limited northern european case studies he starts with because, again, idealist history fundamentally fails to explain how ideology itself creates material change. like, "some guy writes something down -> ??? -> everyone just agrees with him -> ??? -> stuff happens somehow" is not a good explanation of any phenomenon, lmao. if we are stuck on the idea that capitalism, a set of economic phenomena and real relations of production, is the result of ideology, then we will also be stuck trying to 'combat' capitalism on the ideological level. it's unserious and counterproductive. weber's analysis has retained an outsize position in the sociological historiography because it's an attractively simplistic, top-down, idealist explanation of both capitalism and protestantism that makes centuries worth of material changes to production forms into a kind of ideological coup ushering in an age of 'rationalism'. this is just not a text that tells us, leftists, anything politically useful. at best it is an explication of the internal psychological logics of (some) forms of protestantism in (some) places and contexts.

#sry idk if i actually answered yr question lol #weber

[detournementsmineurs]

Tombe de Louise Weber dite La Goulue "créatrice du French Cancan" (1866-1929) au Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris, février 2024.

#cimetières #hommage #LaGoulue #Weber #Paris

[renownusa]

What’s better than one #Z, Two. Going to start sharing the green #280Z I’ve been working on in my limited spare time. It finally runs, pulls hard on triple #weber’s and stops. @oldskool_lyfe even got the E brake to do its job again. So much more has turned this machine around from certain death. More shots and stories in the AM. 🍻 @rude.scott 📷 @samhurly www.renownusa.com (at Renownusa.com San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpRkiH7OqpS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#z #280z #weber

[rastronomicals]

9:24 AM EDT April 18, 2024:

Butthole Surfers - "Weber" From the album Locust Abortion Technician (March 1987)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Mojo Magazine's fifth weirdest album of all time

#Butthole Surfers #Locust Abortion Technician #Weber

[medsocionwheels]

Sociological Theory and the Canon

It's Sociology Sunday! Today we're talking theory.

What is sociological theory?

Sociological theory is a set of interrelated ideas that allow for the (1) systematization of knowledge of the social world (2) the explanation of that world, and (3) predictions about the future of that world, and which are falsifiable through empirical research.

Theory provides a possible answer to questions like, “why did this happen?” or, “why did they do that?” This means theory is speculation, not fact, but unlike “ideas” generally, theory is speculation driven by a more formal, systematic, process, which incorporates the work of previous theorists and research findings.

The Sociological Canon

Some theories are more popular than others. Some theories, while unpopular, are considered “pivotal” to the foundation of sociology. The “sociological canon” helps us identify the “popular” and “pivotal” theories.

The sociological canon is defined as the theories, ideas, and texts that are widely considered as the most important in the field of sociology (Ritzer and Stepnisky 2018) 

“I’m not a regular mom theory, I’m a cool mom theory!”

The canonized theories are sort of like the “cool mom” in Mean Girls (oshowing my age here, the original 😘) – others exist, but these are the ones we tend to think of first when we think of “the mom in Mean Girls” (or, in this case, “sociological theory”).

Critics of the canon argue that the canon is not a neutral construction; rather, it is affected by power and the politics of the theory. To some degree, they are right.

The field of sociology has historically privileged theories that have testable hypotheses, known as “positivist” theories, and theories produced by white men faculty. In this, we can see that the canon, and relatedly, the field of sociology,  have tended to reflect power structures in society more broadly. Which means that, yes, technically the canon is full of theories created by old white dude philosophers in Europe in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Nowadays, though, most sociologists agree that the canon includes much more than Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. 

Meaning the canon is now considered to  include theories from other classical theorists writing during the same time as Mark/Weber/Durkheim, like W.E.B. DuBois and Ida B. Wells. The canon has also expanded in the last 40 or so years to include contemporary theories, such as emancipatory, feminist, and queer theories. These expansions were important steps towards accounting for the reality of the field as it presently exists, and to correctly reflect the field’s foundations which expand far beyond whiteness, masculinity, and western imperial culture. Presently, women make up the (quantitative) majority of sociology faculty, and while this women majority was historically white, the number of women, including and especially women of color, in sociology continues to grow, substantially outpacing white men. 

Sociological Theory and Empirical Research

Empirical research is rooted in theory.

Sometimes these theories are the driving force behind research, constituting the research question for an empirical study. You begin with the possible answer to the question, the theory, and you investigate to see if it holds up–your results may call into question some or all of the theory’s propositions. This is called “deductive reasoning.”

Theory is not always the starting point of research, though. Sometimes theory is generated from research. This process is called “inductive reasoning.” In this case, you begin with observations, draw conclusions, and from those conclusions, generate new ideas about the social world. 

Deductive reasoning is often linked with quantitative research. Quantitative researchers usually have some idea of theory before forming their research question, and some quantitative research is constructed with the goal of testing (falsifying) theoretical propositions.  Qualitative research, in contrast, often uses inductive reasoning, beginning with observation and developing theory as part of the study’s conclusions. This is not always the case with qualitative research, though. One approach to creating contemporary sociological theory assumes the “best” theory is constructed via inductive reasoning, and thus, begins with observation, absent of pre-existing ideas. This is known as a “grounded theory” approach, because it produces theory that is “grounded” in observation of tangible facts instead of based upon pre-existing abstract ideas. The sociologists Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss are often credited with popularizing the “grounded theory” approach, which they outlined in their 1967 book “The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research”.

Other approaches to qualitative research, like content analysis, may start with theory or observations.

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