[Sociology 2240E] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 128 pages long Study Guide!
30 Mar 2017
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Sense of self is highly contextualized at some point the play stage encounters a disaster frustration instead of adaptation (occurs in peer groups. When you generalize from the experience you start to understand yourself as. If you understand a role you understand the relationship someone who can move across social circumstances. Weber not interested in methodology, focused on solving substantive problems which methods would develop from that. He saw a link between sociology & history sociology dealt with development of clear concepts so he could perform a causal analysis of historical phenomena (historical sociologist). Weber"s thinking based on debate about history & science: positivists said history like a natural science (nomothetic) & subjectivists say science/history completely different (idiographic). Weber"s view: history composed of unique empirical events---there can be no generalizations at empirical level--- reduction of empirical reality into laws is meaningless. His view emphasizes both individuality & generality.
