...articulated with special clarity long ago. "Not ideas, but material and ideal interests," he wrote, "directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest."69 Venetian artisans who sought an alternative vision of redemption — men and women from...

...articulates, ideas in turn shape what people's interests are: "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."3 WEBER'S HISTORICAL METHOD Weber's apparently simple model of the relation of ideas and...

...fundamental way in which ideas can affect social reality: "Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...that have been created by ideas have, like switchmen [at railway junctions], determined the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of...

...justification for those interests. Most generally, as Max Weber suggests, ideas act as "switchmen" determining the "tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest."24 How do beliefs make their way into the political process? It is helpful to imagine four...

...social science was the notion that not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern man's conduct. Yet very frequently the "world images" that...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. (Gerth and Mills 1946,280) A careful examination of the loyalty ethic, one of the "switchmen"...

...interests and ideas. Max Weber, for instance, wrote that: "Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...have been created by ideas, have, like switchmen, determine the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest" (1958:280). Inasmuch...

...and my mother, Sybil L. Stokes, with love and gratitude 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 great mass] has, for reasons of submission and intellectual subordination,...

...motives for action. In Weber's famous "switchman" metaphor: 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. lei us not forget, 'could be' redeemed,...

...psychology of the major religions, Weber states that:" 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. Weber went on to argue that the world-views (and their attendant vocabularies of motive)...

...interests, not ideas, that govern people's actions, Weber adds the following important qualification: "Very frequently the 'world images' that have been...the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamics of interest."71 In The Economic Ethics of the World Religions, Weber supplies several examples...