...thesis, but in fact no such theoretical paternity can be demonstrated. 13. Eg Weber 1978: 6 = 1964: 5; "The more we ourselves are susceptible to such emotional reactions as anxiety, anger, ambition, envy, jealously, love, enthusiasm, pride, vengefulness, loyalty, devotion, and appetites of all sorts, and...

...a certain way, the goals of someone "trying to achieve certain ends by choosing appropriate means," "anxiety, anger, ambition, envy, jealousy, love, enthusiasm,...vengefulness, loyalty, devotion and appetites of all sorts" ([17], pp. 9lf.). In the previously cited article, Watkins makes it clear that individualistic explanations...

...reunify a fragmented worldview. At the very least, researchers must be sympathetic to its reality: "The more we ourselves are susceptible to such emotional...conduct which grows out of them, the more readily can we empathize with them."7 This empathy is as far as Weber goes in working through the legitimate...

...4). This includes a broad range of experience that affects one's construction of meaning. including 'anxiety. anger. ambition. envy. jealousy. love. enthusiasm....loyalty. devotion. and appetites of all sorts' and the conduct that issues from them (p. 6). Weber categorizes the types of social action analytically...

...then argues that wideranging emotional empathy is also useful for understanding nonrational action. ("The more we ourselves are susceptible to such emotional...conduct which grows out of them, the more readily can we empathize with them.") Yet rational action still serves as the baseline for analysis: For the...

...persons who abhor extreme rationalist fanaticism (such as the fanatic advocacy of the "rights of man"). The more we ourselves are susceptible to such emotional...conduct which grows out of them, the more readily can we empathize with them. Even when such emotions are found in a degree of intensity of which the...

...frequentl3 quoted passages lies nearby, and gives particular strength to the hermeneutic wing of Weberians: "The more we ourselves are susceptible to such emotional...conduct which grows out of them, the more readily can we empathize with them." But what he gives with one hand, he retrieves with another, for in the...

...engulfed by the process of capitalist rationalization: The "irrational" element of human character, "anxiety, anger, ambition, envy, jealousy, love, enthusiasm,...vengefulness, loyalty, devotion, and appetites of all sorts" all, in other words, that it means to be human (Weber, 1978, p. 6). In a wonderful little book, Albert...

...l1ttle or no control. Weber repeatedly characterizes them as "irrational"; he refers, for instance, to "such emotional reactions as anxiety, anger, ambition,...and to the 'irrational' conduct which grows out of them,"8 and he speaks of certain actions as "affectually determined and thus irrational," as "affectually...

...empathic understanding or emotionally empathic understanding), which is imaginative participation in 'such emotional reactions as anxiety, anger, ambition,...loyalty, devotion, and appetites of all sorts, and thereby understand the irrational conduct which grows out of them' (Weber, 1968: 23). Sociological...