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Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline (Hardcover)
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Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline (Hardcover)
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Max Weber believed that discipline underpins modern rationalized
society. For Weber, modern discipline is the quality that gives a
population the capacity to coordinate action across vast expanses.
But modern discipline also requires individuals to shape their very
psychobiological being to fit the larger socioeconomic system, be
it a military unit, factory, bureaucracy, or other unit of modern
society. Max Weber and the Modern Problem of Discipline explores
how Weber developed his ideas using examples from Ancient Egypt to
the modern world and asks how his description of a habitus of
discipline informs understanding of modernity not just in Europe
but in places that continue to befuddle well-educated and well-paid
modern economists, strategists, and politicians in places like the
Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar/Burma. These are the
areas that, as Weber would have said, are still governed by
traditional authority rather than the legal- disciplined habitus of
rational authority brought by the modernizing outsiders. This book
challenges development economists, foreign service officers,
government officials, administrators, and development workers to
rethink modern discipline and the costs that modern legal-rational
rule imposes on traditional societies. By doing so, this book goes
beyond standard prescriptions for good governance, free markets,
and property rights, which underpin modern development planning. To
describe modern discipline, Tony Waters also draws on more the
contemporary work of Karl Polanyi, James Scott, Goran Hyden, Teodor
Shanin, and James Ferguson, among others. Each describes how and
why independent peasantries ignored and even resisted the
blandishments and trinkets proffered by development bureaucracies
to sell their traditional rights in the modern marketplace. Waters
agrees with them about farmer resilience, but he takes the argument
a step further by pointing out that Weber was proposing a general
theory of a disciplined modernity, not one focused on just a
particular society.
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