MAX WEBER'S INTERPRETIVE SOCIOLOGY AND RATIONAL CHOICE APPROACH

Zenonas Norkus

Rationality and Society, 2000, vol. 12, issue 3, 259-282

Abstract: This article aims at substantiating two theses: (1) Weber's programmatic metatheoretical texts contain a description of the method of socio-scientific explanation, which anticipate a specific version of the Rational Choice Approach (RCA) in contemporary sociology, and (2) it is possible to distinguish two versions of this description; the first, however, being closer to the RCA than the second. The late Weberian outline of sociological theory of action is reconstructed out of his famous typology of action.

Keywords: interpretive sociology; Max Weber; rational choice approach; sociological explanation; theory of action (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1177/104346300012003001

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