SOC 3106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Invisible Hand, Rationality, Presupposition

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3106
• Professor: Andreas Buss

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Soc3106 lecture #6 important person, any aspect of social life you want to choose e. g. capitalism, Weber said we have to find a perspective to look at certain things he called. Heterogeneous continuum world is infinite and connected (cid:498)the historical individual(cid:499) certain individual which does not mean an. Needs to be defined somewhat exaggerated ideal type. Value neutrality as opposed to value relatedness. Professors cannot tell people what to do students wanted weber to explain. * weber"s speech = most important part scientific vocation (this week) Students = students in student corporations (weber was a member of) these and give direction in difficult winter of 1918-1919. Adequate causation corporations invited weber to give a talk. People knew in difficult times people looked for prophet topics and people look for someone to tell them what to do but instead of becoming a prophet. Weber should explain what should not be done. One completing the other but with similar structures.