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In social science, disenchantment (German: Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society. The term was borrowed from Friedrich Schiller by Max Weber to describe the character of a modernized , bureaucratic , secularized Western society . [ 1 ]
His major works dealt with the rationalization and so-called "disenchantment" which he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity. [2] Weber was, along with his associate Georg Simmel , a central figure in the establishment of methodological antipositivism ; presenting sociology as a non-empirical field which must study social action ...
According to Weber, the ability to possess power derives from the individual's ability to control various "social resources". "The mode of distribution gives to the propertied a monopoly on the possibility of transferring property from the sphere of use as 'wealth' to the sphere of 'capital,' that is, it gives them the entrepreneurial function and all chances to share directly or indirectly in ...
Weber knew (and personally regretted) that European societies had been rejecting supernatural rules of behavior since the Age of Enlightenment. He called this discrediting of value-rational ends " disenchantment ", [ 3 ] and feared that placing faith in practical conditional ends destroys human freedom to believe in ultimate moral ends.
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (/ ˈ v eɪ b ər /; German: [maks ˈveːbɐ]; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.
The Rejection and the Meaning of the World, known also as World Rejection and Theodicy (German: Stufen und Richtungen der religiösen Weltablehnung), is a 1916 essay written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist.
Postmodernism in its repudiation of metanarratives [13] has rejected Weber's theory as one Eurocentric aspect of such grand tales; [14] though Fredric Jameson sees it as illuminating at least one facet of the bourgeois cultural revolution [15] —the psycho-sociological transformation that accompanied the move from traditional agrarian society ...
Weber's major works in economic sociology and the sociology of religion dealt with the rationalization, secularisation, and so called "disenchantment" which he associated with the rise of capitalism and modernity. [65]