SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Nomothetic, Ideal Type, Modernization Theory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Victoria L Friesen

Document Summary

Historical school: you should be able to indicate what is meant by an ideographic approach to sociological or historical analysis as well as a nomothetic approach. You should then be able to indicate how weber"s approach to social analysis differed from both: ideographic means, nomothetic means: In a sentence or two, you should be able to indicate why weber did not accept the. In two or three sentences, you should be able to identify the main elements of. Scientific action as weber saw them: on the basis of what is entailed in scientific action, weber was concerned whether or not it could serve as the basis for ethical conduct in the modern era. Weber had in mind: the interpretive perspective means, the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism is a good example of how. Weber used the interpretive perspective to study social phenomenon because: you should be able to comment in two sentences on how weber"s the protestant.