Question

Researchers have found that countries that were settled by Europeans who planned on staying permanently werea. more likely to protect private ownership rights and limit the power of the government.b. less likely to protect private ownership rights and limit the power of the government.c. more likely to protect private ownership, but less likely to limit the power of the government.d. less likely to protect private ownership, but more likely to limit the power of the government.

Answer 1

n one of Max Weber’s last public lectures—“Politics as a Vocation” (1919)—he asked, what is the meaning of political action in the context of a whole way of life? (More accurately, he used the term Lebensführung: what is the meaning of political action in the context of a whole conduct of life, a theme we will return to in the next section). He asked, what is political about political action and what is the place of “the political” in the ongoing conduct of social life?