SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Actions, Verstehen, Office Management

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

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Use the rubric while writing the paper. Use a lot of secondary sources: people who are researched your theory. You can use more than one theorist. Locke, hobbes, and rousseau around their theory. Pursued scholarship in diverse areas, including politics, economics, legal history, urbanism, classical studies, music, world religions. The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (1905) and economy and society (1922) According to weber, social sciences should be made up of 4 methodological elements. Value freedom: (cid:862)e(cid:454)perts (cid:373)ust separate their perso(cid:374)al e(cid:448)aluations form their scientific pronouncements because such value judgements cannot be logically dedu(cid:272)ed fro(cid:373) fa(cid:272)ts(cid:863) similarly politics must be protected from these experts. A methodological construction that summarizes the essential properties common to a number of concrete instances of a given type of social phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374) i(cid:374) order to help . Weber argued that there were 4 ideal types of social action: traditional (or formal, affectual (or substantive, value-rational (wertrationalitat)