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Critically examine Max Weber’s theory of social action and its limitations.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber made social action the basic unit of sociology, which he defined in Economy and Society (1922) as the interpretive understanding of social action in order to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and consequences. It is the core of his sociology, and the first target of his critics.

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  • The theory at its strongest
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