Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered / / Laurence McFalls.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: McFalls, Laurence,
• MitwirkendeR: Boon, James A.,; Breiner, Peter,; Bunge, Mario,; Colliot-Thélène, Catherine,; Drysdale, John,; Fishman, Robert M.,; Goody, Jack,; Gunnell, John G.,; Hanson, Stephen E.,; Kopstein, Jeffrey,; Mcfalls, Laurence,; Motta, Roberto,; Oberschall, Anthony,; Rocher, Guy,; Simard, Augustin,; Thériault, Barbara,; Yamawaki, Naoshi,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: German and European Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)

The German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) is without question one of the founders of modern social science. In his methodological writings, notably his essay "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Science and Policy" (1904), Weber sought reflexively to establish a trans-culturally valid basis for the historical and cultural sciences. Over the past century, however, his work has given rise to divergent interpretations and practical applications within different disciplinary and cultural contexts.In Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered, Laurence H. McFalls and a distinguished group of contributors explore the fragmented reception of Weber's work and the legacies of his methodological writings for contemporary social science, offering their appraisals of Weber's successes and failures in laying the groundwork for an 'objective' social science. They develop a 'Weberian' theory of his reception and evaluate the possibility of an 'objectively' valid Weberian social science today.This essential volume not only contributes to the resurgence of interest in Weber's oeuvre but goes beyond the exegetic and polemical debates of the burgeoning 'Weberological' literature in offering a coherent theoretical explanation for the proliferation of interpretations that Weber's writings continue to elicit.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Towards a Comparative Reception-History of Max Weber's Oeuvre -- Part One: The Partisan and the Scholar: Weber's 'Objectivity' between Theory and Practice -- 1. Weber on Objectivity: Advocate or Critic? -- 2. The Paradox of Social Science: Weber, Winch, and Wittgenstein -- 3. Ideal-Types as 'Utopias' and Impartial Political Clarification: Weber and Mannheim on Sociological Prudence -- 4. Did Weber Practise the Objectivity He Preached? -- Part Two: 'Objectivity' in Cross-cultural Translation -- 5. Speaking Past One Another: Durkheim, Weber, and Varying Modes of Sociological Explanation -- 6. Talcott Parsons: A Critical Loyalty to Max Weber -- 7. Weberianism, Modernity, and the Fall of the Wall -- 8. Rethinking Weber's Ideal-Types of Development, Politics, and Scientific Knowledge -- 9. Weber, Braudel, and Objectivity in Comparative Research -- 10. An Empirical Assessment of Max Weber's 'Objectivity of Social Science Knowledge' -- Part Three: Weber and Contemporary Social Science: An Opportunity Missed? -- 11. On Being a Weberian (after Spain's 11-14 March): Notes on the Continuing Relevance of the Methodological Perspective Proposed by Weber -- 12. Weber and the Problem of Social Science Prediction -- 13. Weber, Objectivity, and the Classics of Comparative Politics -- 14. Also One Hundred Years since Weber Flirted with Ethnography -- Conclusion: The 'Objectivist' Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Science -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter