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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note on the following, keeping sociological perspective in view : Interpretative Sociology.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Sociology as a Science

Max Weber founded interpretative sociology on a single conviction: social action is meaningful to the actor performing it, and no science of society can bypass that meaning.

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  • Weber's Verstehen as the Founding Principle
  • The Wider Interpretative Family
  • The Basic Aim: Understanding Meaning, Not External Causal Law

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