Sociology 2240E Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Verstehen, Asteroid Family, Empirical Process
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Most important guy in social theory, historical sociologist. Mainly on nature and claims to historical and social knowledge. Sociology performed only a preliminary quite modest task. Soc seeks to formulate type concepts and generalized uniformities of empirical process. History is explanation of individual action, structure and personalities posing religious significance. Weber used history and soc together use soc to analysis history. Connecting to the historical events to empirical reasoning. History is composed of unique empirical events, no generalization with empirical evidence. Reduction from empirical reality to laws is meaningless. The systemtic science of culture would be useless. History was both about generalization and individuality using general concepts. Rejects the idea of single causal agent throughout history. Weber developed a concept to analysis the world with a combination of specific and general to do justice to the complex nature of social life.