SOC 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Productive Forces, Ideal Type, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

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Unlike marx he does not believe that sociology as a discipline should focus on figuring out societal regularities with a natural science model. He is mainly inspired by historical methods and does not like macrotheretical models provided within the positivist (cid:396)eal(cid:373). Another example can be found on page 36 i(cid:374) (cid:396)ega(cid:396)d to we(cid:271)e(cid:396)" defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of o(cid:448)e(cid:396)eig(cid:374) tate being an organization provided by a legitimate monopoly of violence. Hegel"s (cid:374)otio(cid:374) of (cid:396)easo(cid:374)i(cid:374)g: because he devotes attention to individual understandings, it is hard to create general terms to put everything together. The terms are not means of the world per se. Ideal type: not something that is ideal in moral or real sense but accentuates particular factors, that are one sided into one mental image. It is a heuristic tool that takes into consideration certain parts of a phenomenon. It is interpretive in nature in order to make sense of reality.