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Max Weber's methodology : the unification of the cultural and social sciences
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Max Weber's methodology : the unification of the cultural and social sciences

Author: Fritz K Ringer
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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At a time when historical and cultural analyses are being subjected to all manner of ideological and disciplinary prodding and poking, the work of Max Weber, the brilliant social theorist and one of the most creative intellectual forces in the twentieth century, is especially relevant. In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to the work of Weber, interpreting his methodological writings in the  Read more...
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Ringer, Fritz K., 1934-
Max Weber's methodology.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997
(OCoLC)654910669
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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