Specify the metatheoretical assumptions informing the work of Max Weber, illustrating your answer by reference to his substantive concepts.
Title: Specify the metatheoretical assumptions informing the work of Max Weber, illustrating your answer by reference to his substantive concepts.
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Specify the metatheoretical assumptions informing the work of Max Weber, illustrating your answer by reference to his substantive concepts.
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 2766 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Like his French counterpart, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber (1864-1920) was interested in scholarly disputes about method and theory in sociology, as he writes in The Methodology of Social Science: "Only by identifying and solving objective problems were sciences established and their method further developed; never, on the other hand, have epistemological or methodological considerations been decisively involved" (Weber, 1904, p145). Weber was influenced by the German sociologist Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), who articulated the distinction …showed first 75 words of 2766 total…
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