SOC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bourgeoisie, Determinative, Puritans
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Born in the prussian city of erfurt to a family of notable heritage. Educated at the universities of heidelberg and berlin, weber was trained in. Wrote the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (1904 1905), one of law, eventually writing his habilitationsschrift on roman law and agrarian history under august meitzen, a prominent political economist of the time. Taught at university of freiburg then at heidelberg. the most important essays in the history of sociology and political economy. In 1909, he co-founded the deutsche gesellschaft f r soziologie. His work is being taught in law, political science, history, religion and economics. Marx and durkheim are both engaged in explanatory social science. Explanatory social theories are concerned with explaining why certain outcomes occur. Both marx and durkheim privilege structures (entities that exist above the level of the individual) in their theories of societal development. By an (cid:498)interpretative(cid:499) theory, we refer to a theory that is centrally concerned.