Month: March 2025

On value-rational action

A founding figure of Western social science, Max Weber, distinguished several types of political action, two of which are particularly interesting: Instrumental rational action. Means are judged by whether they…

Happy versus depressed

During the years of the migration crisis, Professor Martin Konvička, the leader of the Czech anti-immigration movement, has repeatedly pointed out that the view of migration has a lot to…

Ritualism

The American sociologist Robert Merton called ritualism a way of behaving when a person repeats an action out of inertia, but is aware that it is completely useless. He himself…