Max Weber's 'Objectivity' Reconsidered /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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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

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