This paper argues that an interpretive meaning-centered analysis is not adequate for understanding collective behavior that is outside the range of calculating rationality. Alternative approaches to collective irrational action are drawn from the work of Weber and Durkheim, as well as from the crowd psychologists Le Bon and Tarde. These approaches are then illustrated in a short analysis of the...

Collective representations are the result of an immense cooperation, which stretches out not only into space but into time as well; to make them, a multitude of minds have associated, united and combined their ideas and sentiments: for them, long generations have accumulated their experience and their knowledge. A special intellectual activity is therefore concentrated in them, which is in!nite...

Professional sociology in Ecuador started with the first chair 1915. This led to a series of foundational texts during 1920s and 30s that sought define what is while applying it core aspects Ecuadorian society. While this time was – Global North- marked by growing centralization on theories Durkheim Weber, sociologists preferred other thinkers order understand The result mixture different were ...