SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Fact, Rationality, The The
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Lecture 8: weber i & ii: born 1864, germany, critical figure in sociology: studied key sociological concepts, reworked and engaged with marx. Generally studied: rationalization & modernity: main themes in his writing, subjectivity and meanings, power, bureaucracy, and more! Verse durkheim: what is the task of sociology, weber and durkheim differ, durkheim argues that the work of sociology is to study social facts broad, large social patterns that are bigger than the individual. There is interaction between the individual and the social fact but it is bigger than the individual. Norms can be reduced to the individual but social facts cannot. Studying objectivity of social facts: weber sociology was supposed to be creating interpretive understanding. To understand how people are engaging in social action, why they do the things that they do. It goes into the mind of the individual to see patterns of behavior. Study subjectivity of people: study of social facts vs.
