Max Weber's Major Theories Of Capitalism

Max Weber

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Capitalism

• Max Weber was majorly known for his contribution to the field of sociology through his proposed theories of capitalism. During Weber’s time the standard view on capitalism was that it came as a result of the development of technology. According to Weber there was more to the concept.

• Weber proposed that capitalism was made from the social ideas of those practising the Calvinism religion( a branch of protestant, which also is a branch off Christianity) . he related the traits and accredits the development of capitalistic societies to the way of life and morals of the Calvinist Christians. Firstly, the religion didn’t have any repent-like

Prior to the introduction of Freud’s theories the idea of the unconscious mind in relation the study of psychology was very ambiguous.

• Freud further depicted his theories of the unconscious mind using his famous analogy of the iceberg. He describes the conscious mind as the part of the iceberg that is visible above water. This is the part of our mind that we fully acknowledge and are aware of. He further explains that the bottom portion of the iceberg that is not visible above the water is our unconscious mind. He says that this is the part of our brain that we are not aware of; this section of our mind holds significant and threatening information about ourselves we, for the most part, aren’t able to fully phantom or even understand.

• In addition he conceptualized this idea by naming the conscious mind “Ego”, and divides the unconscious mind into “Superego” and “id” .The superego and id is the idea of having a conscious; superego acting as the angel and id as the devil. When in a conflicting situation that requires a decision to be made Freud suggests that the ultimately decision is made by the

These urges he believed were predominantly aggressive and sexual.

Defense Mechanisms

• Stemming of his theories of the unconscious mind Freud develops yet another theory. He employs that having to deal with the challenges of life on a day to day basis, our subconscious is at constant warfare between the realities of society/social order which is symbolized by superego and our biological needs and desires represented by id.

• Freud proposes that with a high degree of these conflicting demand when are often left feeling anxious, threatened, and overwhelmed and in order to deal with these conflicts, ego indulges in a range of defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms work subconsciously to assist an individual in getting rids of undesired feelings and/or make things feel better.

• Examples of defense mechanisms include repression, denial, projection, displacement, regression, and