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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Methods of Sociology according to Max Weber.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber built his method in a German debate. Wilhelm Dilthey and Heinrich Rickert had split the natural sciences from the cultural sciences. Weber refused to choose between the two sides. Sociology, he wrote in Economy and Society (1922), must interpretively understand social action and causally explain its course and consequences. His methods follow from…

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  • Social action as the unit of analysis
  • Verstehen: interpretive understanding
  • Two tests of adequacy
  • Ideal types
  • Comparative-historical method and causal imputation
  • Value-relevance and value-neutrality
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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