Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: Max Weber

  • Capitalism as a “Mental Technology”: From Bastos to Hartmut Rosa and the social capital theories

    One of the most intensive defenses of capitalism I have recently heard comes from Miguel Anxo Bastos. In several conferences and interviews, he presents capitalism not merely as an economic system, but as a kind of “mental technology”: a way of seeing the world rationally, systematically, and productively. In his account, capitalism emerges from habits…

  • Max Weber, Hidden Behind the Clichés

    A Spanish-German colloquium on the contemporary relevance of the thinker held in Madrid Reyes Mate4 DEC 1989 – 00:00 CET Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on TwitterExpand Social NetworksAdd EL PAÍS on Google Max Weber, the most important German thinker at the hinge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, seeks his place in the history…

  • Capitalism is a Technology – Miguel Anxo Bastos

    What was humanity like before we young people came to know it? How does one escape poverty? What was there before, 200 years ago? Poverty is always something relative. So, I don’t know whether people in other times felt poor as such, but rather understood that this was existence itself. That was how it had…

  • Daniel Bell and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

    Capitalism is often understood as an economic system based on markets, private property, competition, productivity, and growth. However, for the sociologist Daniel Bell, capitalism was not only an economic structure. It was also a cultural system, and this cultural dimension created one of its deepest contradictions. In his influential book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,…

  • Great video overview of Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic (and difference between Northern and Southern Europe.

  • The limits of quantitative research in social sciences

    “If there is no net force on an object, then its velocity is constant. The object is either at rest (if its velocity is equal to zero), or it moves with constant speed in a single direction“. First Newton law The mastering of the so called “law-like generalizations” (Saunders et at, 2009) produced within natural science…