WEBER’S METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTION TODAY
WEBER’S METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTION TODAY
Author(s): Dalibor SavićSubject(s): History and theory of sociology, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Evropski defendologija centar za naučna, politička, ekonomska, socijalna, bezbjednosna, sociološka i kriminološka istraživanja
Keywords: Max Weber; methodology of social sciences; aporias of modern sociology; multiple modernity paradigm; MacDonaldization; analytical sociology; interpretive sociology;
Summary/Abstract: This paper shall deal with the actuality of Weber’s methodological conception. Contrary to frequent interpretations that declare classical sociology legacy obsolete, without offering a valid argument for these qualifications, Weber’s methodological conception is presented as a fruitful heuristic framework for addressing the key aporias of modern sociology (e.g. dispute between modernists and postmodernists, relationship of action and structure / subject and object, advantages and disadvantages associated with the usability of qualitative / interpretive and quantitative / positivist approach in the study of social phenomena and processes. In this context, Weber’s intellectual legacy should not be understood as a set of ideas that can be reactualized or rejected as needed via model of analogy, but rather as a theoretical and methodological active content that many sociologists (and not only them) use even today as a model and inspiration to understand contemporary social phenomena and processes.
Journal: DEFENDOLOGIJA
- Issue Year: 18/2015
- Issue No: 36
- Page Range: 63-73
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English