SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Georg Simmel
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Outline: max weber, life, sociology as a science of an action, natural is social science, power, authority, stratification. Weber: born 1864 oldest 7 children, lots of political literary cultural people surrounding him, he joined the military and became close to his aunt and uncle that were encouraging of his intellectual pursuits. Engaged to his cousin: moved back to berlin, was a student, a lawyer for a while then studying to become a professor, financially dependent on his parents. He takes peoples ideas and motivations seriously: durkheim interested in the structure of institution, weber looks at the subjective meaning to understand why people are attached to the things they do, sociology is about the science of action, there are a lot of people in the world. Try to come up with a solution to the reason. Every action has a structure, organization, meaning to it. i. e. defending your honor leads to a fight.
