...sense in which this highly ambiguous word is used here) is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to...at a causal explanation of its course and effects. In "action" is included all human behaviour when and in so far as the acting individual attaches a...

...sense in which this highly ambiguous word is used here) is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to...at a causal explanation of its course and effects. In 'action' is included all human behaviour when and in so far as the acting individual attaches a...

...addressed most forcefully by Max Weber. Defining sociology as "a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects,"128 Weber objected to those social scientific approaches - such as that of Wilhelm Roscher...

...sense in which this highly ambiguous word is used here) is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to...at a causal explanation of its course and effects. In "action" is included all human behaviour when and in so far as the acting individual attaches a...

...Consider social facts as things (E. Durkheim). Sociology is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to...at a causal explanation of its course and effects (M. Weber). Society does indeed possess objective facticity. And society is indeed built up by activity...

...Verstehen to be a contradiction in terms: Sociology ... is a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to...at a causal explanation of its course and effects. In "action" is included all human behavior when and insofar as the acting individual attaches a subjective...

...conception of sociology is best described by an extract from Economy and Society. Sociology, he wrote, is a science which attempts the interpretative understanding...order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its cause and effects. In "action" is included all human behaviour when and in so far as the acting individual...

...of materially constraining structures it subsumed. Indeed, Weber defined sociology as a science that attempts the interpretative understanding of social...order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its causes and effects. Just as in his more substantive writings, then, Weber pointed to a multidimensional...

...addressed most forcefully by Max Wcbcr. Defining sociology as "a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to...at a causal explanation of its course and effects," I2lt Weber objected to those social scientific approaches — such as that of Wilhelm Roscher — that...

...social conduct. Thus, Weber conceived of sociology as the science with the task of "the interpretive understanding of social action in order thereby to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects."1 Social action, to Weber, meant action on the pan of individuals participating in social...