SOC202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Verstehen, Social Fact, Meritocracy
24 Dec 2015
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There are lots of combinations of such questions; e. g. comparing two thinkers on a particular issue (weber and. Another way of asking the same" question is to ask about the roots of marx"s philosophical orientation. What did they address in common? (science, the shift to modernity). Some things they talked about were specific to each of them; e. g. weber on power and domination, etc. According to weber, sociology is an intrepretive science. It focuses on social action and is concerned with finding general principles and generic type concepts in relate to it. He focuses on a term called verstehen and it takes an individualistic view of causal adequate explanations from point of view of an external observer. Therefore, weber looks for the cause and effect and the context of social action. He accepts that there are no laws, but you can make generalizations using empirical evidence and generic principles and concepts.
