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What is the subject-matter of Sociology according to Max Weber? Which major methods did he suggest for social science research? Illustrate your answer with his sociological contributions.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber steered between positivism's search for natural laws and historicism's refusal to generalise. In Economy and Society (1922) he defined sociology as a science which attempts the interpretive understanding of social action in order to arrive at a causal explanation of its course and effects. Subject-matter and method share one premise: meaningful action must…

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  • Subject-matter: social action
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