SOCY 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Wilhelm Dilthey, George Ritzer, Verstehen

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

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Readings for week 8: born in erfurt, thuringia, april 21, 1864 (germany). Heidelberg before pursuing a career in academics: he suffered a breakdown in 1896 and didn"t resume scholarly work until 1903 when he published several methodological essays the most important one was: "objectivity" in social. Weber came up with his notion of the ideal-type concepts, conceived as instruments for representing the most relevant aspects of a given object for purposes of social scientific inquiry. Ideal-types are important to weber"s methodological perspective which is characterized as methodological individualist, atomism, constructivism, or nominalism. The protestant ethic and the spirit" of capitalism (1905) was his best known work: weber was a historian who became a sociologist while also remaining an economist. He was also captivated by politics, law and religion: weber maintained that social action is the conceptual framework of our understanding of societal structures. Weber"s first major project was economy and society.