Weber, the central, defining, objective characteristic
Subject: General Questions / General General Questions
Question
"(10) We have said that, for Weber, the central, defining, objective characteristic of the modern ethos is its pervasive rationalization. Yet, within the modern culture-period we have seen the rise of counter-rational movements: Christian Fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, and so-called “postmodernism” (an unsympathetic examination of objectivity and all its expressions). For good or for ill, the dominant features of the western ethos are still rationalized to their cores.
Describe in Weberian terms the sociological meaning of the processes depicted in the preceding paragraph."
