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  2. Instrumental and value-rational action - Wikipedia

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    Habermas reasoned that mutual understanding produced by communicative action provides socially legitimate value-rational norms. But power structures, such as Weber's religions, bureaucracies, and markets, prescribe contaminated patterns of behavior resulting in "cultural impoverishment" similar to Weber's disenchantment.

  3. Instrumental and value rationality - Wikipedia

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    Rationalists are prone to favor Weber's value rationality. They assume a human deductive capacity for immediate knowledge of meaningful beliefs and behaviors—fact-free human ends. Empiricists, by contrast, favor Weber's instrumental rationality. They assume a human inductive capacity to recognize how brute facts work as value-free means.

  4. The "Objectivity" of Knowledge in Social Science and Social ...

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    The "Objectivity" of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy (German: Die 'Objektivität' sozialwissenschaftlicher und sozialpolitischer Erkenntnis), is a 1904 essay written by Max Weber, a German economist and sociologist, originalpublished in German in the 1904 issues of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialforschung.

  5. Inner-worldly asceticism - Wikipedia

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    Its emphasis on the importance of one's calling encouraged the differentiation of life-spheres, while its rationality favoured an emphasis on natural law [8] – further aspects enhancing the impact Weber postulated such asceticism had upon the development of capitalism, [9] or rather the particular type of capitalism Weber saw as marked by ...

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  7. Grating - Wikipedia

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    For example, two identical transparent gratings of 50% duty cycle and the same orientation will appear fully opaque only if the relative phase is π (180 degrees). Gratings with sine wave profiles are used extensively in optics to determine the transfer functions of lenses. A lens will form an image of a sine wave grating that is still ...

  8. Weber electrodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Weber electrodynamics is a theory of electromagnetism that preceded Maxwell electrodynamics and was replaced by it by the end of the 19th century. [1] Weber electrodynamics is mainly based on the contributions of André-Marie Ampère , Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber .

  9. Ideal type - Wikipedia

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    Ideal type (German: Idealtypus), also known as pure type, is a typological term most closely associated with the sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920). [1] For Weber, the conduct of social science depends upon the construction of abstract, hypothetical concepts.