Max Weber Ex Factor Analysis
2. I found a relationship between the social theory of Max Weber and the song “Ex-Factor” by Lauryn Hill. Max Weber was a German sociologist that contributed to the development of understanding of modern societies. One of is contribution was in fact the consideration of the role and behavior of individuals. For Weber, when studying societies we need to consider the motivation that guide individual behavior, the reasons we behave that way we do. In order to understand this concept of behavior we need to figure out the meaning these people give to the world around them. As we can see in the song, the relationship between the couple as turned into something that cannot be explained. The woman in the relationship has been mistreated and abused,
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The Max Weber’s social theory was based on motivations that guide individual behavior, and the reasons we behave the way that we do. In order to understand deeply the answer for those motivations that brings an individual to act in a certain way, we need to not just look at the appearances or the social environment around but to go deeper and try to get inside people’s mind a see if we can figure out or give a meaning to the world around them, Weber said. It reminds me when people have a prejudices on others without even knowing them. It is to me like judging a book by its cover, wrong. Sometimes when we see people acting or behaving in a way that it is not natural, we don’t need to instantly judge or say something bad but instead would be better to know the why the person in behaving like that and what is going through his head at the moment. So, as Max Weber stated, and I personally think it is right, we all need to understand that behind an action or behave there are motives for that action and we can only find the meaning inside people’s …show more content…
The W.E.B. Du Bois’s social theory was built around the race and racial inequality in America. He claimed that whites were biologically differently from the blacks, especially in terms of intelligence, capacity of hard work and on their abilities. He also believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism. He was a big peace activist. I believe that something has changed though, throughout the years. Nowadays things are not as bad as it was back in the 60’, 70’ and 80’, maybe because finally we came at the conclusion that we are all the same in a different way, and no matter what is your skin color, religion or orientation, we are all a part of the same community. However, there is still a lot of work to do in order to get to the point where the world racism does not comes off often on newspaper, people’s mouth and media. Another interesting point that Du Bois expressed was about that black people had two personalities in order to get themselves seeing in a good way form the whites, which I personally think is one of the saddest thing that a human being can do, and I said that because we are in this world to be who we want to be and not to be who others wants us to
The Max Weber’s social theory was based on motivations that guide individual behavior, and the reasons we behave the way that we do. In order to understand deeply the answer for those motivations that brings an individual to act in a certain way, we need to not just look at the appearances or the social environment around but to go deeper and try to get inside people’s mind a see if we can figure out or give a meaning to the world around them, Weber said. It reminds me when people have a prejudices on others without even knowing them. It is to me like judging a book by its cover, wrong. Sometimes when we see people acting or behaving in a way that it is not natural, we don’t need to instantly judge or say something bad but instead would be better to know the why the person in behaving like that and what is going through his head at the moment. So, as Max Weber stated, and I personally think it is right, we all need to understand that behind an action or behave there are motives for that action and we can only find the meaning inside people’s …show more content…
The W.E.B. Du Bois’s social theory was built around the race and racial inequality in America. He claimed that whites were biologically differently from the blacks, especially in terms of intelligence, capacity of hard work and on their abilities. He also believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism. He was a big peace activist. I believe that something has changed though, throughout the years. Nowadays things are not as bad as it was back in the 60’, 70’ and 80’, maybe because finally we came at the conclusion that we are all the same in a different way, and no matter what is your skin color, religion or orientation, we are all a part of the same community. However, there is still a lot of work to do in order to get to the point where the world racism does not comes off often on newspaper, people’s mouth and media. Another interesting point that Du Bois expressed was about that black people had two personalities in order to get themselves seeing in a good way form the whites, which I personally think is one of the saddest thing that a human being can do, and I said that because we are in this world to be who we want to be and not to be who others wants us to