Max Weber Collected methodological writings

• Main Authors: Bruun, H. H., Whimster, Sam, Weber, Max
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2012; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Weber in Translation
• Subjects: 20th Century; Classical Social Theory; Ethnography & Methodology; Historical Sociology; History: Theory, Method & Historiography; Human Geography - Research Methods and Techniques; Philosophy of Social Science; Political Research Methods; Quantitative Methods; Social sciences; Social sciences - Methodology; Weber, Max, 1864-1920; Systematic Cultural Sciences; Causal Regression; Young Man; Heuristic Instrument; collected; Vice Versa; Conferred; March Revolution; sciences; Causal Interconnection; Goethe's Letters; instruments; Follow; Timeless; Einige Kategorien Der Verstehenden Soziologie; Nervi Fragment; Word Forms; winckelmann; GStA Berlin; Weber Fechner Law; Robert Liefmann; Causal Imputation; Max Weber Gesamtausgabe; writings; Individual Distinctive Character; heuristic; Sundowners; Metabasis Eis Allo Genos; cultural; Violate; marianne; Unlimited; methodological; johannes; German Sociological Society
• ISBN: 9781138019676; 9780415478984; 1138019674; 0415478987
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203804698

Weber's methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today. These ideas influence the current research practice of sociologists, historians, economists and political scientists and are central to debates in the philosophy of social science. But, until now, Weber's extensive writings on methodology have lacked a comprehensive publication. Edited by two of the world's leading Weber scholars, Collected Methodological Writings will provide a completely new, accurate and reliable translation of Weber's extensive output, including previously untranslated letters. Accompanying editorial commentary explains the context of, and interconnections between, all these writings, and additional useful features includea glossary of German terms and an English key, endnotes, bibliography, and person and subject indexes.