Summary Of "Max Weber: Comprehensive Sociology" By Ivancich & Lens: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Weber argued that the origin of the social sciences was practical: it was a technique. But later, when it assumed the character of an academic science, the distinction between existential knowledge ("what is") and normative knowledge ("what should be") was blurred. In a newspaper in which he participated, Weber will distinguish three levels of economics: a) what is strictly economic is the institutions created for an economic purpose, such as a bank or a factory, b) what is related to the economic, for example religion, which it does not directly manifest an economic character, but it has consequences of that type, and c) what is conditioned by the economic, such as art. To address the issue, we have summarized the essentials of "Max Weber: Comprehensive Sociology", by Norberto Ivancich and José Luis Lens.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Nov 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201899394

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of Max Weber: Comprehensive Sociology By Ivancich & Lens

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SUMMARY OF MAX WEBER: COMPREHENSIVE SOCIOLOGY BY IVANCICH & LENS

First edition. November 17, 2021.

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MAX WEBER: COMPREHENSIVE SOCIOLOGY

The science debate in turn-of-the-century Germany

Max Weber, who has been called the bourgeois Marx, became a sociologist arguing with the shadow of Marx. The greatest concern in his life was the origin and nature of capitalism. Weber generalized and modified Marx's method, but what he most questioned was his revolutionary conclusions, and his conviction of the superiority of socialism over capitalism. But it is wrong to say that Weber went to the ideas breaking with the material of Marx, as Parsons' functionalism puts it. This means ignoring that for Marx ideas played an important role. What Weber rejects is vulgar and dogmatic Marxism, which Marx himself denied.

The concept of comprehensive sociology

Weber argued that the origin of the social sciences was practical: it was a technique. But later, when he assumed the character of an academic science, the distinction between existential knowledge (what is) and normative knowledge (what must be) was blurred. In a newspaper in which he participated, Weber will distinguish three levels of economics: a) what is strictly economic is the institutions created for an economic purpose, such as a bank or a factory, b) what is related to the economic, for example religion, which it does not directly manifest an economic character, but it has consequences of that type, and c) what is conditioned by the economic, such as art.

The State, to the extent that it carries out economic activities by itself, is an economic phenomenon, and to the extent that its measures have consequences for economic life, it is related to the economic. Insofar as economic interests influence government policies, the State is conditioned by the economic. THE ECONOMIC, for Weber as for Marx, is linked to the material struggle for existence. To understand it, we must study those three levels, looking at the total society as a social system. We must reject, yes, the materialist conception of history , in the sense of objective causes ", but the economic interpretation of history must be encouraged.

The term INTERPRETATION is related to the idea that every perspective, for Weber, can only give a partial, limited and one-sided explanation. But in order to capture reality, you have to see as many approaches as possible. Therefore, it would be wrong to stay with an only economic vision of the social. You can never encompass total reality, and this also applies to the natural sciences. Some kind of abstraction is always needed, along with the selection of problems, phenomena, and relationships, which depends on the values ​​of the researcher or his sponsor.

THE METHOD OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THE METHOD OF NATURAL SCIENCES, because there is a great difference between physical and cultural phenomena. This difference is that IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES THERE IS SIGNIFICANCE of cultural events, a VALUABLE ORIENTATION. While a cell, a stone or a carbohydrate do not give values ​​or meanings, men (object of study of the social sciences) do. According to our values ​​we will privilege certain portions of reality. Empirical data cannot