Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently the ‘world images' that have been created by ‘ideas' have, like switchmen, determined the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany - Page 5by Rogers Brubaker - 1992 - 270 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry, Steven T. Katz - Religion - 1988 - 356 pages
...the importance of this concept by saying that 'ideas - in the form of "worldimages" - have frequently "like switchmen", determined the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. "From what", and "for what" one wished to be redeemed and, let us not forget, "could be"... | |
| Bruce Mazlish - Communities - 1989 - 348 pages
...wonderful image, Weber discusses their general relationship: "Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest."28 Thus, where Marx had tended to see ideas as more or less the reflection or expression... | |
| Ronald H. Chilcote - Political Science - 1990 - 230 pages
...that ideology and practice are not separated in history: Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action, has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. "From what" and "for what" one wished to be redeemed and, let us not forget, "could" be redeemed,... | |
| Michael Pusey - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 328 pages
...what kinds of vulnerabilities have allowed it to prevail. Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest." At the global level the leading 'idea' and Leitmotif of neoclassical economics and of its... | |
| Robert J. Steinfeld - Business & Economics - 1991 - 292 pages
...Invention of Free Labor O Noi ideas, huí material and ideal interests, directly govern men's (•(induci. Yet very frequently the "world images" that have been...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of inleresl. "Krotn what" and "for what one wished to be redeemed, and let us not forget, "could be" redeemed,... | |
| Peter Hamilton - Sociologists - 1991 - 390 pages
...that Weber assigned priority to the value component), and then continued with the qualification that "very frequently the 'world images' that have been...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest." In short, ideas and interests are interdependent (see, eg, Weber 1946: 277-8). It is this... | |
| Peter Hamilton - Sociologists - 1991 - 378 pages
...the role of ideas in historical explanation as follows: 'Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct Yet very frequently...switchmen, determined the tracks along which action has pushed by the dynamic of interest' HH Gerth & C. Wright Mills, From Max Weber, Routledge & Kegan Paul,... | |
| Ahmad Sadri - Social Science - 1994 - 182 pages
...I, p. 577). He expressed his position in the well-known passage: "Not ideas, but material interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest" (Weber, Social, p. 280). If, when, where, and how an idea or its reinterpretation might come... | |
| Yuen Foong Khong - History - 1992 - 296 pages
...the questions were generated. CHAPTER 2 The AE Framework Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. — Max Weber, The Social Psychology of the World Religions WEBER'S SENTIMENT about the importance... | |
| Peter Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 416 pages
...that Weber assigned priority to the value component), and then continued with the qualification that "very frequently the 'world images' that have been...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest." In short, ideas and interests are interdependent (see, eg, Weber 1946: 277-8). It is this... | |
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