Title: | Habitus and personality in the work of Max Weber |
Authors: | Anderson, Elisabeth |
Keywords: | habitus;labour unions;life-conduct;Max Weber;personality;voluntary associations |
Issue Date: | 22-Jun-2022 |
Publisher: | Sage |
Citation: | Anderson, E. (2022). “Habitus and personality in the work of Max Weber.” Journal of Classical Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X221099207 |
Abstract: | Weber’s critique of modernity centred on how it shaped the habitus – life-conduct and motivations – of the modern individual. I explicate six habitus-types that appear in Weber’s work: the early-modern Puritan Berufsmensch, the modern specialist, the modern industrial worker, the politician, the civil servant and the citizen voter. In doing so, I identify the main characteristics of each type and the causal mechanisms through which Western modernity’s core features – capitalism and bureaucracy – brought them into being. Further, I discuss two habitus-related problems that concerned Weber: the general failure of the modern habitus to achieve ‘personality’; and the mismatch between habitus and occupational role in the Wilhelmine political sphere. I then explain the practical reforms through which Weber hoped to address these problems. Finally, I show how this analysis helps resolve two apparent contradictions which have long perplexed Weber scholars. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/64431 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X221099207 |
Rights: | CC BY-NC-ND |
Appears in Collections: | Elisabeth Anderson’s Collection |
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