Границите на Вебер – смисъл и ценност, рационалност и индивидуализъм
On his way to what finally became his Verstehende Soziologie, Max Weber did a whole lot of delimitation work. It referred, first, to the limits of strictly empirical social science as opposed to normative or metaphysical endeavours, and secondly to methodological differentiations (history/culture vs. nature, or idiographic vs. nomothetic), methodical procedures (individualism as empirical method or valuation, interpretative understanding and/or causal explanation), and methodological or analytical concepts (value vs. meaning, ideal type vs. generic concepts, action vs. behaviour). Not always, though, Weber´s limitations – as to one side of the differentiation, or even both – turn out to be sufficiently clear or complete. Some examples for that are given and discussed.
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