Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings (Weber in Translation)
Language: English
Pages: 600
ISBN: 1138019674
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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 today. These ideas influence the current research practice of sociologists, historians, economists and political scientists and are central to debates in the philosophy of social science. But, until now, Weber's extensive writings on methodology have lacked a comprehensive publication.
Edited by two of the world's leading Weber scholars, Collected Methodological Writings will provide a completely new, accurate and reliable translation of Weber’s extensive output, including previously untranslated letters. Accompanying editorial commentary explains the context of, and interconnections between, all these writings, and additional useful features include a glossary of German terms and an English key, endnotes, bibliography, and person and subject indexes.
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are dealing with historical individuals. However, we constantly encounter generic concepts that form part of historical accounts and concrete historical concepts; and those generic concepts may of course also be constructed as ideal types by means of abstracting and accentuating certain of their elements that are conceptually important. Indeed, in practice, this way of using idealtypical concepts is particularly frequent and important, and every individual ideal type is composed of conceptual
This probability can, logically speaking, be “calculated” in the same way as some “technical” process or the outcome of a game of skat. If the desired result is attained, then there is no doubt – in spite of Stammler’s protest that this is impossible – that the “legal rule” has causally influenced [the fact that], in future, the chimney will no longer belch heavy smoke. Of course, [it has] not [had that causal influence] as a conceived ideal “Ought” (a “norm”), but as actually bringing about a
least parts of the manuscript – or an abstract of the main ideas – in advance, and the present letter contains Max Weber’s preliminary reaction to them. To Else Jaffe 13 September 1907 […] Specialist knowledge is technical and teaches technical means. But where values are being fought over, the problem is projected onto an entirely different level of the intellect, removed from any “science”; more precisely: the problem is posed in a completely different manner. No specialized science, and no
school, but in many respects took up an intermediate position between the historical school and the Austrian “marginalists”. (“Our discipline” is a reference to the science of economics.) 144 In this connection, Meyer (Theory and Method) refers to Barth, Bernheim, Lamprecht and Breysig. 145 This was Windelband’s doctoral thesis (The Theories of Chance (1870)). 146 In its classical form, this principle holds that there is an adequate reason to account for the existence and nature of everything
increase (or decrease) in the consumption of that good or service.) In general, preferences display diminishing marginal utility. 321 The agrimensors were the land surveyors in ancient Rome. In all questions concerning the determination of boundaries by means of marks, the area of surfaces, and explaining maps and plans, the services of the agrimensor were required. 322 In the fourteenth and fifteenth century, Florence was a centre of banking. See also endnote 65. 323 A reference to a French