Max Weber: l’agire sociale e la scienza di realtà o Wirklichkeitswissenschaft
Journal title SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE
Author/s Antonio Scaglia
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2009/90
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 5-19 File size 399 KB
DOI 10.3280/SR2009-090001
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Meaningful social action (sinnhaftes Handeln) is the concept on which Max Weber bases comprehensive sociology. The connotation of the meaning of individual and social action and Ideal Type conceptual forms are to be read according to the criteria expressed in the Essays on the Theory of Science (Wissenschaftslehre). In these writings Weber distinguishes between the "science of laws" or regularity and the "science of reality" or Wirklichkeitswissenschaft. The latter not only determines the goal, form and object of scientific knowledge, it also identifies meaning and meaningful causative connections for the explanation and comprehension of historic personalities. Sociology is not therefore a theory and Ideal Types are an instrument to use and modify in order to understand concrete historical events, as put into practice throughout Weber’s extensive works.
Antonio Scaglia, Max Weber: l’agire sociale e la scienza di realtà o Wirklichkeitswissenschaft in "SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE " 90/2009, pp 5-19, DOI: 10.3280/SR2009-090001