Max Weber and the Iron Cage of Technology  

Oleh:

Maley, Terry

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society vol. 24 no. 1 (Feb. 2004), page 69-86.
Topik: Max Weber; social science; social scientific methodology; bureaucracy; soft technology; values; democracy
Fulltext: 69BSTS241.pdf (147.7KB)

Isi artikel

Max Weber is seen by mainstream social scientists as a sociologist, social theorist, and theorist of bureaucracy. In this reassessment of Weber’s social science and its methodology, it is suggested that Weber can also be seen as a compelling early 20th-century critic of science and technology. The theme of technology, andWeber’s ambivalence about it, is approached through a discussion of his notion of disenchantment. In the modern, disenchanted world, social scientists are compelled to choose the values that guide research, but research is constrained by the technocratic requirements of large, bureaucratic institutions that sponsor and fund it. The article asks whether Weber’s notion of individual values is still applicable in the context of social science in the early 21st century. In a line of thought that can be traced to Postman and Ellul, it is asked whether the choices social scientists make can puncture the dense web of bureaucratictechnological rationality of whichWeber was critical.

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