On the use of definitions in sociology
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...More recently it has been acknowledged that “If the everyday meaning is used, the research will have difficulty in creating a sociological analysis and may instead end up with one that is based on folk wisdom” (Swedberg 2019, p. 5)....
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...Besides prototype theory, there is also exemplar theory, theory theory, semantic networks theory and Lakoff’s theory of metaphors (e.g. Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Novak and Canas, 2008; Margolis and Laurence, 2014)....
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...This would be in the spirit of Max Weber’s statement that scholars should always be honest and explicit about facts that are ‘inconvenient’ from their own perspective (Gerth and Mills, 1946: 147; Collier, Hidalgo and Maciuceanu, 2006: 241, n.10).6...
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...I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions’ (Gerth and Mills, 1946: 147)....
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...Some years after Wittgenstein’s pioneering analysis, which is generally seen as having ended the so-called classical theory of the concept, cognitive scientist Eleanor Rosch presented a similar analysis (e.g. Rosch and Mervis, 1975; Rosch, 1978; 1987; Earl, 2018)....
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...And social action, to recall, constitutes the basic unit in Weber’s definition of sociology (Weber, 1978: 4, 26–7)....
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...…a social relationship and an order, Weber presents the following definition: ‘A social relationship will be referred to as “conflict” (Kampf) insofar as action is oriented intentionally to carrying out the actor’s own will against the resistance of the other party or parties’ (Weber, 1978: 38)....
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...One is that sociology is not concerned with producing a definition that somehow represents ‘the truth’, in the way that, say, law or ethics do (Weber, 1978: 4)....
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...The first chapter of Economy and Society is devoted to the presentation and explication of the basic concepts of sociology (Weber, 1978: 3–62)....
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...A definition is often accompanied by an explication, which has as its task to explain and throw light on the definition (e.g. Merton, 1966; Weber, 1978: 57, n.4)....
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