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Alfred Schutz and the Austrian School of Economics
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Schutz's reconstruction of Max Weber's methodology is examined from two points of view: Schutz's decade-long affiliation with the Austrian school of economics and his project for the unification of the social sciences.Abstract:
Alfred Schutz's reconstruction of Max Weber's methodology is examined from two points of view: Schutz's decade-long affiliation with the Austrian school of economics and his project for the unification of the social sciences. Biographical and textual evidence shows that Schutz's methodological goals for his first book, Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt (published in 1932), wereshaped by the epistemological debates within the Austrian school of economics, rather than some abstract and unmotivated attempt to "synthesize" Weber and Hussl. Schutz modified Weber's concepts of Verstehen and the ideal type to meet Austrian objections, and revised them further to comply with canons of reliability adopted from the logical empiricist theory of science, with which he was familiar through his friend Felix Kaufmann. The essay concludes with a depiction of Schutz's little-known program for the unification of the social sciences, whose origin can be traced to the same intelectual context.read more
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The New Sociological Imagination
TL;DR: A Brief History of the Stakes Socialism as the Elusive synthesis at the heart of Social Science The Problem of Inheritance and Socialism's Ultimate Retreat to Naturalism Towards a Renewal of Welfare and the Rediscovery of British Sociology Interlude Today's Orwellian Turn in Sociology as discussed by the authors.
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Max Weber on economy and society
Robert J. Holton,Bryan S. Turner +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the challenge of liberalism to Gemeinschaft accounts of class is discussed. But it is not discussed in the context of Max Weber's "Sociology of Religion".
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A Realist Philosophy of Social Science: Explanation and Understanding
TL;DR: The authors argues that the fundamental goal of theory in both the natural and social sciences is not, contrary to widespread opinion, prediction and control, or the explanation of events (including behaviour), instead, theory aims to provide an understanding of the processes which, together, produce the contingent outcomes of experience.
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Institutions as Knowledge Capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann’s Interpretative Institutionalism
TL;DR: This article revisited the socioeconomic theory of the Austrian School economist Ludwig M. Lachmann and showed that the common claim that Lachman's idiosyncratic (read: eclectic and multidisciplinary) approach to economics entails nihilism is unfounded.
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The phenomenology of the social world
TL;DR: Schutz as mentioned in this paper provided a sound philosophical basis for the sociological theories of Max Weber using a Husserlian phenomenology, and provided a complete and original analysis of human action and its "intended meaning."
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The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy
TL;DR: Husserl's last great work, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers as discussed by the authors.
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New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies.
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New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies
TL;DR: In this article, the production and reproduction of social life are discussed. But the main focus is on the form of explanation accounts, and not on the content of the explanations, as in this paper.