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Several scholars have called attention to the importance of Weber's use of the term "elective affinity," yet nowhere has the term received a treatment both systematic and historically founded. The present paper attempts to fill that gap. Each instance of Weber's usage is cited and discussed.
- Richard Herbert Howe
- 1978
Nov 1, 2016 · Elective affinities predict friendship as much as the ethnic background. Abstract. We estimate the relative importance of ethnicity and individual characteristics, such as personality and cognitive skills, in determining social connections by using survey data on seven-year-old children from multi-ethnic schools (N = 453).
- Chiara Rapallini, Aldo Rustichini
- 2016
Conclusions involve the importance of facilitating emotional intelligence and promoting supportive parenting skills to long-term health and psychological benefits. Keywords: society, emotional attachment, elective affinities, uninvited agonies, emotional intelligence, health, relationships.
Drawing on the concept of "elective affinities" from the writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Max Weber, I seek to articulate a scientific framework for under- standing psychological receptiveness to ideological messages.
following is to ascertain the "elective affinity" between the two explana-tory models that Weber employs for his analysis of the religious and legal rationalization process. First evidence for such an "elective affinity" is found in the great em-phasis that Weber placed on the significance of propagating strata
Sep 1, 2016 · Using an original panel data-set of classmate networks in multi-ethnic primary schools near Florence, Italy, (N=396 children in 2nd and 5th grade), we show instead that cognitive skills and ...
elective affinities, or kinships by choice, are predestined and irresistible. When the term is transferred to human relationships, it seems as if passion may well act with no less resistible force. The novel works out the implications of this notion, fancifully outlined by Edward (Part 1, chapter 4) in terms of human character.
