Question
Some scholars believe that this author’s term “stahlhartes Gehäuse” (“shtall-HART-tez guh-HOI-zuh”) would be better translated as “shell as hard as steel” rather than “iron cage”. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this German thinker who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
ANSWER: Max Weber [or Maximilian Karl Emil Weber]
[10h] This student of Weber themselves had students including Clifford Geertz. This thinker contrasted “specificity” with “diffuseness” in one of their pairs of “pattern variables.”
ANSWER: Talcott Parsons
[10m] Parsons wrote about the “social” form of this behaviour in his book The Structure of Social [this behaviour]. Weber said that the meaning of this behaviour is “social” when “it takes account of the behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course."
ANSWER: social action [accept The Structure of Social Action]
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