Max Weber - Remarks On Technology And Culture (2005 Theory, Culture And Society)

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1、02_kemple-2_054989(jk-t)12/7/051:06pmPage23RemarksonTechnologyandCultureMaxWeberEditor’sNote:From19Octoberto22October1910,MaxWeber,AlfredWeber,GeorgSimmel,FerdinandToennies,ErnstTroeltschandvariousotherscholarsfromarangeofdisciplinarybackgroundsmetinFrankfurt-am-MainforthefirstmeetingoftheDeutscheSoz

2、iologischeGesellschaft(GermanSociologicalSociety).ThefollowingcommentarywasmadebyMaxWeberontheseconddayoftheconferenceinreplytoWernerSombart’slectureon‘TechnikundKultur’(TechnologyandCulture).Webercommentedonseveralotherpapersattheconferenceaswell,mostofwhichhavenowbeentranslatedintoEnglish:onthecon

3、ceptofrace(Weber,1971[1910],1973b[1910]),Christian-Stoicconceptionsofnaturallaw(1973a[1910]),andlawandscience(untranslated).Healsopresenteda‘BusinessReport’whereheoutlinedthetasksoftheSocietyasawholeandproposedcollaborativesociologicalstudiesofthepress(1976b[1910],1998[1909–10]),voluntaryassociation

4、sandtheselectionofprofessions(2002[1910]).FrustratedwithinternaldisputesandinactionamongSocietymembers,andwithdifficultiesinfundingtheneworganization,thefollow-ingyearheresignedfromhisexecutivepositionastreasurerandpubli-cationseditor,andafterthe1912meetingsinBerlinhewithdrewentirelyfromanyfurtherpar

5、ticipationinwhathecalled‘thissalondesrefusés’(Weber,1994:656).Nevertheless,thisfirstmeetingwascertainlyamajorepisodeinWeber’scareer,andinmanywaysprefiguresthediversityoftopicsandconflictingapproachestosociologythathaveoftencharacterizedthedisciplineeversince.Sombart’slecturesketchedaremarkablywide-rang

6、ingsurveyoftheinfluentialandindispensablepartplayedbyparticulartechnologiesintheformationofvariousculturalspheres:theeffectofthesteamengineintrans-formingcapitalistindustry;theuseofgunpowderinenhancingthemilitary■Theory,Culture&Society2005(SAGE,London,ThousandOaksandNewDelhi),Vol.22(4):23–38DOI:10.11

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