Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Weber/WEBERW9.HTML. Read the brief passage on "Rationalization and Disenchantment" and answer the following questions:

a. The passage states that modernity "has been deserted by the gods." In Weber's grand theory, what does this mean?

b. According to this passage, how did the rationalization of religious life affect magic?

c. According to this passage, what was the impact of rationalization in the sphere of law?

d. How did rationalization affect music?

Exercise 2

Go to http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm#Bureaucracy. Read the passage on bureaucracy and answer the following questions:

a. According to this passage, what are the characteristics of bureaucracy?

b. According to this passage, what does bureaucracy make possible?

c. What is the serious misunderstanding of Weber that this passage addresses?

d. Why is it such a serious misunderstanding of Weber's ideal-typical bureaucracy?