Max Weber and Methodology of Social Science - Tapa blanda

"A very thorough study of the background in the German intellectual--especially philosophical--discussion of that period. A very striking picture." "--Talcott Parsons, Sociological Inquiry" -Toby Huff's important papers on Max Weber exhibit the kind of depth and penetration that one desires--indeed, needs--in treatments of Weber's methodology and they are a distinctive contribution to sociological theory.- --Robert Bierstedt, Commonwealth Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia -A very thorough study of the background in the German intellectual-- especially philosophical--discussion of that period.... A very striking picture.- --Talcott Parsons, Sociological Inquiry -They are a breath of fresh air, so detailed, historically accurate, ... and so imbued with importance for contemporary controversies in social science.- --Jeffrey Alexander, professor of sociology, University of California, Los Angeles "Toby Huff's important papers on Max Weber exhibit the kind of depth and penetration that one desires--indeed, needs--in treatments of Weber's methodology and they are a distinctive contribution to sociological theory." --Robert Bierstedt, Commonwealth Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia "A very thorough study of the background in the German intellectual-- especially philosophical--discussion of that period.... A very striking picture." --Talcott Parsons, Sociological Inquiry "They are a breath of fresh air, so detailed, historically accurate, ... and so imbued with importance for contemporary controversies in social science." --Jeffrey Alexander, professor of sociology, University of California, Los Angeles "Toby Huff's important papers on Max Weber exhibit the kind of depth and penetration that one desires--indeed, needs--in treatments of Weber's methodology and they are a distinctive contribution to sociological theory." --Robert Bierstedt, Commonwealth Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia "A very thorough study of the background in the German intellectual-- especially philosophical--discussion of that period.... A very striking picture." --Talcott Parsons, "Sociological Inquiry" "They are a breath of fresh air, so detailed, historically accurate, ... and so imbued with importance for contemporary controversies in social science." --Jeffrey Alexander, professor of sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Husserl. This volume will help scholars and students understand in the broadest sense the issues central to the logic of social scientifi c explanation, and will appeal to philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, as well as scholars of Weber.