HREQ 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Symbolic Interactionism, Communism, Frankfurt School

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 3010
• Professor: Paul Brienza

Document Summary

Weber says: human behavior, external or internal , exhibits both relational contexts and regularities in its course, as do all occurrences. Unique to human behavior, however (at least in the fullest sense), are relationships and regularities whose course can be intelligibly interpreted. Understanding of human behavior achieved through interpretation contains, in varying degrees, a specific qualitative self evidence . Behavior or human conduct has regularities or patterns that can be observed by the social scientist. First, that these behaviors can be understood by other humans; and, second, that these interpretations are a type of self-evidence. In other words, we create the meaning of history, social structure and culture through our own understandings we make the world. Interpretive sociology involves the practice of putting ourselves in someone else"s shoes". Weber believes that the central aspect of study for the new science of sociology is social action.