Max Webers Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences by F

Description: Max Webers Methodology by Fritz Ringer In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to Webers work, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the lively German intellectual debates of his day, and demonstrating how Weber was able to bridge the divide between humanistic interpretation and causal explanation in historical and cultural studies. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description At a time when historical and cultural analyses are being subjected to all manner of ideological and disciplinary prodding and poking, the work of Max Weber, the brilliant social theorist and one of the most creative intellectual forces in the twentieth century, is especially relevant. In this significant study, Fritz Ringer offers a new approach to the work of Weber, interpreting his methodological writings in the context of the lively German intellectual debates of his day. According to Ringer, Weber was able to bridge the intellectual divide between humanistic interpretation and causal explanation in historical and cultural studies in a way that speaks directly to our own time, when methodological differences continue to impede fruitful cooperation between humanists and social scientists. In the place of the humanists subjectivism and the social scientists naturalism, Weber developed the flexible and realistic concepts of objective probability and adequate causation.Grounding technical theories in specific examples, Ringer has written an essential text for all students of Weber and of social theory in the humanities and social sciences. Fully reconstructed, Max Webers methodological position in fact anticipated the most fruitful directions in our own contemporary philosophies of the cultural and social sciences. Ringers conceptualization of Webers approach and achievement elucidates Webers reconciliation of interpretive understanding and causal explanation and shows its relevance to intellectual life and culture in Webers own time and in ours as well. Notes This is an extraordinarily illuminating work that every serious student of Weber will have to reckon with. Nothing else is remotely comparable for conceptualizing Webers methodological orientations. This is a truly major work for the history of the social sciences. -- Donald Fleming, Harvard University Max Webers Methodology examines, with exemplary clarity, Webers contributions to methodological debates vis-a-vis a vast variety of contemporary opponents. Written by a careful, mature scholar in full command of his texts, it is an excellent and original study that offers an unusually insightful and balanced presentation of Webers methodology. -- Stephen Kalberg, Boston University Author Biography Fritz Ringer was Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Decline of the German Mandarins and Fields of Knowledge. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Aspects of Webers Intellectual Field The German Historical Tradition The Threat of ePositivismi The Revival of the Humanistic Disciplines Webers Adaptation of Rickert Rickerts Position and Its Problems Webers Adaptation Against Naturalism, Holism, and Irrationalism Singular Causal Analysis Objective Probability and Adequate Causation The Frameworks and Tactics of Causal Analysis Contemporary Formulations Interpretation and Explanation From Interpretation to Causal Analysis Interpretive Sociology The Ideal Type and Its Functions Objectivity and Value Neutrality The Two Components of Webers Position through 1910 The Maxim and Ethos of Value Neutrality Contemporary Formulations From Theory to Practice Neither Marxism nor Idealism From Methodological Individualism to the Comparative Analysis of Structural Change An Example of Webers Practice: The Protestant Ethic Conclusion Bibliography Index Review Max Webers methodology has traditionally been claimed by two camps: one that wants to steer the social sciences in the interpretive or hermeneutic direction and one that favors a more objectivist or positivistic social science. Fritz Ringers book presents a clear and well-written summary of Webers methodological position, but it is also a plea to scholars to overcome these differences. Ringer argues that, in the end, all the social sciences need to engage in causal explanation and that Webers ideas are still relevant to the project of a causal, objective, and scientific social science… This book is now arguably the most reliable and readable exposition in English of Webers complicated methodological essays. -- Ralph Schroeder * Isis *This is an extraordinarily illuminating work that every serious student of Weber will have to reckon with. Nothing else is remotely comparable for conceptualizing Webers methodological orientations. This is a truly major work for the history of the social sciences. -- Donald Fleming, Harvard UniversityMax Webers Methodology examines, with exemplary clarity, Webers contributions to methodological debates vis-à-vis a vast variety of contemporary opponents. Written by a careful, mature scholar in full command of his texts, it is an excellent and original study that offers an unusually insightful and balanced presentation of Webers methodology. -- Stephen Kalberg, Boston University Promotional This is an extraordinarily illuminating work that every serious student of Weber will have to reckon with. Nothing else is remotely comparable for conceptualizing Webers methodological orientations. This is a truly major work for the history of the social sciences. -- Donald Fleming, Harvard University Max Webers Methodology examines, with exemplary clarity, Webers contributions to methodological debates vis-a-vis a vast variety of contemporary opponents. Written by a careful, mature scholar in full command of his texts, it is an excellent and original study that offers an unusually insightful and balanced presentation of Webers methodology. -- Stephen Kalberg, Boston University Review Quote This is an extraordinarily illuminating work that every serious student of Weber will have to reckon with. Nothing else is remotely comparable for conceptualizing Webers methodological orientations. This is a truly major work for the history of the social sciences. Details ISBN0674001834 Author Fritz Ringer Publisher Harvard University Press Language English Illustrator Jane Bendix ISBN-10 0674001834 ISBN-13 9780674001831 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2000 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle The Unification of the Cultural and Social Sciences Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Residence PA, US Pages 208 Short Title MAX WEBERS METHODOLOGY REV/E Edition Description Revised DOI 10.1604/9780674001831 UK Release Date 2000-03-15 AU Release Date 2000-03-15 NZ Release Date 2000-03-15 US Release Date 2000-03-15 Publication Date 2000-03-15 DEWEY 301.01 Illustrations 3 line illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:8301798;

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