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How does Weber’s Verstehen address the objectivity-subjectivity debate in sociology?

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Late nineteenth-century German thought split over method. Positivists wanted sociology to copy the natural sciences. Historicists such as Wilhelm Dilthey held that human life can only be relived from inside. Max Weber took a middle path: sociology is "a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social action and thereby with a causal explanation…

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  • Subjectivity accepted as the subject matter
  • Objectivity secured through method
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