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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ringer, Fritz K., 1934- Max Weber's methodology. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997 (OCoLC)654910669 |
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| Named Person: | Max Weber; Max Weber |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Fritz K Ringer |
| ISBN: | 0674556577 9780674556577 0674001834 9780674001831 |
| OCLC Number: | 36954628 |
| Description: | viii, 188 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Aspects of Weber's Intellectual Field -- 2. Weber's Adaptation of Rickert -- 3. Singular Causal Analysis -- 4. Interpretation and Explanation -- 5. Objectivity and Value Neutrality -- 6. From Theory to Practice. |
| Responsibility: | Fritz Ringer. |
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Max Weber's methodology has traditionally been claimed by two camps; one that wants to steer the social sciences in the interpretive or hermeneutic direction and one that favors a more objectivist or positivistic social science. Fritz Ringer's book presents a clear and well-written summary of Weber's methodological position, but it is also a plea to scholars to overcome these differences. Ringer argues that, in the end, all the social sciences need to engage in causal explanation and that Weber's ideas are still relevant to the project of a causal, objective, and scientific social science...This book is now arguably the most reliable and readable exposition in English of Weber's complicated methodological essays. -- Ralph Schroeder Isis Read more...
