عنوان

Max Weber's theory of action :

شماره

TLets808291

عنوان اصلي

Max Weber's theory of action :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Butts, Stewart

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

an examination of its interpretation and extension by Parsons and Schutz

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Stirling

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1981

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Thesis (Ph.D.)

امتياز متن

1981

متن يادداشت

Weber's contribution to the study of social action has been a major influence upon the development of modern sociology but aspects of his approach have been obscured by the process of translation, commentary and evaluation - and in this respect the work of Parsons and to a lesser extent Schutz has been significant. Hence this study aims (a) to clarify the nature of Webens Theory of Action and (b) to determine its contemporary value in comparison with the extension of his ideas by Parsons and Schutz. We examine the interpretation, advanced particularly by Parsons, that Weber's approach to the study of action changed as he became increasingly concerned with the nature of sociological inquiry, and, thereby, moved beyond the problems of historical method. On the basis of a detailed examination of Weber's theoretical and methodological arguments we reject the idea of a break in his thinking about historical and sociological research and this has important implications for some accepted views-on Weber's conception of objectivity, ideal type concepts and understanding. Parsons set out to extend Weber from the perspective of a natural science of society, but his claim to identify a convergence between Durkheim, Pareto and Weber into the Voluntaristic Theory of Action is rejected and the criticisms, which his development of some aspects of Weberts approach have experienced, are sufficient to cast doubts upon the-validity of his General Theory. Schutz formulated a phenomenological critique of Weber's categories of interpretive sociology and sought to establish a philosophically more secure basis for the study of action but, we suggest, his assumptions about the everyday world, allied to his evaluation of Weber's approach, led him to propose an impracticable methodology. Finally, we argue that the contemporary relevance of Weber's Theory of Action can be seen from the way many of the problems involved in the study of action, some of which were identified by the development of the phenomenological perspective, can be solved by recourse to his approach.

موضوع مستند نشده

Parsons, Talcott, 1902-; Weber, Max, 1864-1920; Schutz, Alfred, 1899-1959; Social sciences Philosophy

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

University of Stirling

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Stirling

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y