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 to...

Table of Contents:

• 2 Note Marked "new Sciences", C.1902/1903 -- 3 Note on "immediate Experience" and "human Action", C.1902/1903 -- 4 Note on Wilhelm Roscher, C.1902/1903 -- 5 Note on Historical Method, C.1902/1903 -- 6 Note on "intelligibility" of Reality, C.1902/1903 -- 7 Note on "cosmos" and "development", C.1902/1903 -- 8 Note Marked "development V. Below/e. Meyer", C.1902/1903 -- 9 Handwritten Beginning of Draft Entitled "georg Simmel as a Sociologist and Theoretician of the Money Economy", C.1908 -- 10 "fragment on Formal Ethics", C.1912 -- Endnotes -- English Key to Glossary -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Subject Index
• Cover -- Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings -- Contents -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Editorial Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Roscher and Knies and the Logical Problems of Historical Economics -- I Roscher's "historical Method" -- Ii Knies and the Problem of Irrationality -- Iii Knies and the Problem of Irrationality (continued) -- Accompanying Remarks -- The "objectivity" of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy -- Critical Studies in the Logic of the Cultural Sciences -- I a Critique of Eduard Meyer -- Ii Objective Possibility and Adequate Causation in the Historical Causal Approach -- R[udolf] Stammler's "overcoming" of the Materialist Conception of History -- Addendum to the Essay on R[udolf] Stammler's "overcoming" of the Materialist Conception of History -- The Theory of Marginal Utility and the "fundamental Law of Psychophysics" -- "energetical" Theories of Culture -- Review of Adolf Weber, the Tasks of Economic Theory as a Science, 1909 (excerpts) -- On Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology -- Declaration -- The Meaning of "value Freedom" in the Sociological and Economic Sciences -- Science as a Profession and Vocation -- Contributions and Interventions (excerpts) -- Association for Social Policy, Mannheim 1905 -- Intervention in Debate After G. Schmoller's Lecture on "the Relationship of Cartels to the State" -- Association for Social Policy, Vienna 1909 -- Intervention in Discussion on "the Productivity of the National Economy" -- German Sociological Society, General Meeting, Frankfurt 1910 -- Business Report -- Intervention in the Debate on W. Sombart's Paper on "technology and Culture" -- Intervention in the Debate on H. Kantorowicz's Paper on "legal Science and Sociology" -- Letters (excerpts) -- Notes and Drafts -- 1 Note Marked "rickert's 'values'" (the "nervi Fragment"), C.1902/1903