...the way in which, to use a simile of Weber's own, ideas have functioned as 'switchmen' determining 'the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest'.1 But how are we to estimate the difference which would have been made had the doctrines...

...'images' of the world has been underscored by Weber: 'Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest.'14 In considering the interplay of ideas and interests, one interpretation of Weber immediately...

...material and ideal interests directly govern man's conduct. Yet very frequently the 'world images' which have been created by 'ideas' have, like switchmen,...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interests" (Weber 1958: 63-4; see also chap. 2). Finally, after all. it would be intriguing, but not...

...interests (material and ideal) provides the dynamics of the rationalization process. The world images have, "like switchmen, determined the tracks along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interests" (Tenbruck 1980:335). For Weber, however, it is not the power and persistence of the ideas...

...provided a striking formulation of his view of history: Not ideas, but material and ideal interest, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. "From what" and "for what" one wished to be redeemed and, let us not forget, "could be" redeemed,...

...had depended upon such a world image and such a stand. Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. "From what" and "for what" one wished to be redeemed and, let us not forget, "could be" redeemed,...

...the direction that class interests take. Said Weber, "Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest."19 George A. Lindbeck's recent work on The Nature of Doctrine draws in part on a Weberian...

...Weber explained the importance of such "world images": Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest. "From what" and "for what" one wished to be redeemed and, let us not forget, "could be" redeemed,...

...of his approach to the sociological analysis of ideas. Not ideas, but material and ideal interests, directly govern men's conduct. Yet very frequently,...along which action has been pushed by the dynamic of interest.37 Three levels of abstraction are involved in this passage, not two: material interests,...

...interests (material and ideal) directly govern men's conduct. But very often the 'images of the world' that have been created by ideas have, like switchmen,...determined the tracks along which action has been moved by the dynamic of interests." In the past, magical and religious forces and the obligatory ideas...