ABSTRACT
Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences. His discussion of value freedom and value commitment, causality, understanding and explanation, theory building and ideal types have been of fundamental importance, and their impact remains undiminished today. These ideas influence the current research practice of sociologists, historians, economists and political scientists and are central to debates in the philosophy of social science. But, until now, Weber's extensive writings on methodology have lacked a comprehensive publication.
Edited by two of the world's leading Weber scholars, Collected Methodological Writings will provide a completely new, accurate and reliable translation of Weber’s extensive output, including previously untranslated letters. Accompanying editorial commentary explains the context of, and interconnections between, all these writings, and additional useful features include a glossary of German terms and an English key, endnotes, bibliography, and person and subject indexes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |353 pages
Articles
chapter |92 pages
Roscher and Knies and the Logical Problems of Historical Economics
chapter |5 pages
Accompanying Remarks
chapter |39 pages
The “Objectivity” of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy 1
chapter |46 pages
Critical Studies in the Logic of the Cultural Sciences
chapter |17 pages
“Energetical” Theories of Culture 1
chapter |29 pages
On Some Categories of Interpretive Sociology 1
chapter |2 pages
Declaration
chapter |19 pages
Science as a Profession and Vocation
part |15 pages
Contributions and Interventions (Excerpts)
chapter |1 pages
1 Association for Social Policy, Mannheim 1905
chapter |4 pages
2 Association for Social Policy, Vienna 1909
chapter |1 pages
3 German Sociological Society, General Meeting, Frankfurt 1910
chapter |2 pages
4 German Sociological Society, General Meeting, Frankfurt 1910
chapter |5 pages
5 German Sociological Society, General Meeting, Frankfurt 1910
part |40 pages
Letters Excerpts
part |12 pages
Notes and Drafts