The Rationality of Max Weber and the manufacturing of private higher education institutions

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1806-5023.2018v15n2p177

Abstract

The present discussion will appreciate how the classical sociology, under a voice of Max Weber (1864-1920), can elicit scientific research on the nature of capitalism and business organizations in the twenty-first century. For the study, field research was conducted in Belém-Pará, using interviews and observation of teaching practices;The Comprehensive Method and heuristic resource called ideal type to analyze the so-called manufacturing of Private Higher Education Institutions in the Brazilian context, as a phenomenal expression modeled by bureaucratic paradigm and the intensification of the Brazilian higher education business (management with economic and profitable Finance), which aims to translate: the acute process of technical and scientific rationality, under the logic of the valorisation of capital gains and their impacts on the forms of domination and control in the management of teaching workers.

Author Biographies

Edson Paiva Soares Neto, Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia da Universidade Federal do Pará

Mestre em Ciências Sociais, Professor da Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia. Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia da Universidade Federal do Pará

Andréa Bittencourt Pires Chaves, Professora da Faculdade de Ciência Sociais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia, da Universidade Federal do Pará

Doutora em Ciências Sociais, Professora da Faculdade de Ciência Sociais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia, da Universidade Federal do Pará

Published

2018-12-20