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Methodology of Social Sciences
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Max Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on substantive problems in the theory and strategy of the social sciences. They were written between 1903 and 1917, the most productive of Max Weber's life, when he was working on his studies in the sociology of religion and Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.Weber had done important work in economic and legal history and had taught economic theory. On the basis of original investigations, he had acquired a specialist's knowledge of the details of German economic and social structure. His always vital concern for the political prosperity of Germany among the nations thrust him deeply into discussion of political ideals and programs.Weber's methodology still holds interest for us. Some of its shortcomings, from the contemporary viewpoint, may be attributed to the fact that some of the methodological problems that he treated could not be satisfactorily resolved prior to certain actual developments in research technique. These few qualifications aside, the work remains a pioneering work in large scale social research, from one of the field's masters.
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Subject Index
1848, events of, 181
1866, situation in, 181
Academia della Crusca, 104
ancient history, 154
a priori end, 11
āabsolute chance,ā 117, 183
sphere of, 182
absolute polytheism, 17
āabstract concept,ā 150
āabstractā-theoretical method, 87
abstract theory, 87, 88, 89
abstraction[s], 171, 173, 175, 177, 187, 188
academic freedom, v
āaccident,ā scientifically insignificant, 70
āaccidental,ā 73, 100, 116, 172, 178
āaccidental disturbances of the clarity of judgment, 124ā25
āaccidents,ā 74, 127
āacquisitive impulse,ā 89
āact jointly,ā 187
action[s], 53
cause of an, 83
āconditionsā [of], 123.n6
āexternal,ā 123
āgoalsā [of], 123.n6
human, 119, 186
āirrationality of,ā 124
āmeansā of, 123.n6
ārational,ā 125.n11
actual causal components, 171
adaptation, 25-26
rational, 125.n11
adequacy, 79 ā80
āadequacyā of causation, 188
āadequate,ā 185
āadequate causationā (Mill), 167.n34, 168.n35, 175, 178, 184, 188
adequate effect, 185
āadvanced cultures,ā 157
historically, 157
āaestheticā interpretation, 148.n23
aesthetics, 43, 107, 149.n23
āaffects,ā 125
emotional, 124
African culture, 157
āaging,ā 154
āagriculture,ā 108, 109, 110
ambiguity, 38, 46
American ābusinessā conception, 99
analogies, 163
āanalogous events,ā 130
analysis, causal, 33, 123, 177, 186
in history, 167.n33
regressive, 181
comparative, 98
correlation, vii
cultural, 94
ādescriptive,ā 93
empirical, 39, 40, 85
empirical-psychological, 13
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- foreword
- I The Meaning of āEthical Neutralityā in Sociology and Economics
- II āObjectivityā in Social Science and Social Policy
- III Critical Studies in the Logic of the Cultural Sciences
- Name Index
- Subject Index