Max Weber's 'Objectivity'. Reconsidered. Edited by Laurence McFalls.

Sehr gutes Exemplar; Umschlag stw. nur minimal berieben. - Englisch. - . 'Max Weber's "Objectivity" Reconsidered brings together a "wonderful range of contributors, from extremely distinguished experts on Max Weber to outstanding social scientists and theorists working in a variety of important areas. Laurence McFalls has done a superb job of collecting lucid and exciting cases for the need to reconsider Weber's essay' - Harvey Goldman, Department of Sociology, University of California at San Diego . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Acknowledgments ----- Introduction: Towards a Comparative Reception-History of Max Weber's Oeuvre ----- LAURENCE McFALLS WITH AUGUSTIN SIMARD AND BARBARA THERIAULT ----- Part One: The Partisan and the Scholar: Weber's 'Objectivity' between Theory and Practice ----- Weber on Objectivity: Advocate or Critic? ----- JOHN DRYSDALE ----- The Paradox of Social Science: Weber, Winch, and Wittgenstein ----- JOHN G. GUNNELL ----- Ideal-Types as 'Utopias' and Impartial Political Clarification: Weber and Mannheim on Sociological Prudence ----- PETER BREINER ----- Did Weber Practise the Objectivity He Preached? ----- MARIO BUNGE ----- Part Two: 'Objectivity' in Cross-cultural Translation ----- Speaking Past One Another: Durkheim, Weber, and Varying Modes of Sociological Explanation ----- CATHERINE COLLIOT-THELENE ----- Talcott Parsons: A Critical Loyalty to Max Weber ----- GUY ROCHER ----- Weberianism, Modernity, and the Fall of the Wall ----- ROBERTO MOTTA ----- Rethinking Weber's Ideal-Types of Development, Politics, and Scientific Knowledge ----- NAOSHI YAMAWAKI ----- Weber, Braudel, and Objectivity in Comparative Research ----- JACK GOODY ----- An Empirical Assessment of Max Weber's 'Objectivity of Social Science Knowledge' ----- ANTHONY OBERSCHALL ----- Part Three: Weber and Contemporary Social Science: An Opportunity Missed? ----- On Being a Weberian (after Spain's 11-14 March): Notes on the Continuing Relevance of the Methodological Perspective Proposed by Weber ----- ROBERT M. FISHMAN ----- Weber and the Problem of Social Science Prediction ----- STEPHEN E. HANSON ----- Weber, Objectivity, and the Classics of Comparative Politics ----- JEFFREY KOPSTEIN ----- Also One Hundred Years since Weber Flirted with Ethnography ----- JAMES A. BOON ----- Conclusion: The 'Objectivist' Ethic and the 'Spirit' of Science ----- LAURENCE McFALLS WITH AUGUSTIN SIMARD AND BARBARA THERIAULT ----- - Contributors Index. ISBN 9780802092243