Durkheim, Weber, and the Nineteenth-Century Problem of Cause, Probability, and Action.
Stephen P Turner
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1986
I / The Earlier Conversation.- One / Two Generations.- Two / Beyond the Enlightenment: Comte and the New Problem of Social Science.- Three / Mill and the 'Ascent To Causes'.- Four / Quetelet: Rates and Their Explanation.- Five / The Interregnum.- II / Durkheim as a Methodolog'ist.- Six / Realism, Teleology, and Action.- Seven / Collective Forces, Causation, and Probability.- Eight / Durkheim's Individual.- III / Weber On Action.- Nine / Objective Possibility and Adequate Cause.- Ten / Rationality and Action.- Eleven / Large-Scale Explanations: Aggregation and Interpretation.- Epilog / The End of the Ascent.- Notes.