Autore: Fitzi, Gregor
Titolo: Agire affettivo, carisma e ascesi intramondana. Il contributo weberiano alla sociologia delle emozioni
Periodico: Società mutamento politica (Online)
Anno: 2011 - Volume: 2 - Fascicolo: 4 - Pagina iniziale: 37 - Pagina finale: 50

Max Weber has often been depicted as a rationalistic thinker, who did not acknowledge the role of emotions for social interaction. By contrast to that interpretation the paper shows what the theoretical significance of the analysis of emotions in Weber’s sociology is. Starting from the level of social action, emotional action is seen by Weber as the most important motive for the breakout of new frames of interaction in premodern societies. The development of Weber’s sociological theory of emotions can therefore be reconstructed following the architecture of his posthumous work “Economy and society”. There Weber exposes how the emotional motivation of action becomes on the one hand the leading impulse for the building of the horizontal social structure of Vergemeinschaftung and on the other for the vertical structures of the charismatic power. Latter is the most developed social structure based on emotional action. Its endurance is however limited in time. Everyday forms of social life must replace the charismatic ties if the social group wants to last over the period of emergency. Weber attention for this issue evidences his particular understanding of the sociological status of emotions that can be defined as a “liminal status”. Emotions can give impulsion to the developing of social relationships but in the long run they have to be replaced by other action forms as e. g. tradition or rationality. This assumption could lead to claim that especially in modern times the role played by emotions in the social domain is vanishing. Taking a look to Weber’s sociology of religion, this assumption may however be contradicted in a surprising way.




SICI: 2038-3150(2011)2:4<37:AACEAI>2.0.ZU;2-V
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