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Quote (Louis @ Nov. 16 2007,02:34) | P.S. I have a quantum theory of washing up ownership in communal houses. The particle which transfers the force of ownership is the buckon. The passing of the buckon is the ownodynamic process by which washing up ownership superpositions are collapsed. The buckon is theorised to be relevant to politics and other social systems too. I've just revolutionised the social sciences. All those statistical models and research are unneccessary. |
Good, I'm sick and tired of Max Weber: Quote |
In his own words: On sociology:
"Sociology . . . is a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social action and thereby with a causal explanation of its course and consequences. We shall speak of 'action' insofar as the acting individual attaches a subjective meaning to his behavior--be it overt or covert, omission or acquiescence. Action is 'social' insofar as its subjective meaning takes account of the behavior of others and is thereby oriented in its course" (1921/1968, p.4).
"Within the realm of social conduct one finds factual regularities, that is, courses of action which, with a typically identical meaning, are repeated by the actors or simultaneously occur among numerous actors. It is with such types of conduct that sociology is concerned, in contrast to history, which is interested in the causal connections of important, i.e., fateful, single events (1921/1968).
"An ideal type is formed by the one-sided accentuation of one or more points of view and by the synthesis of a great many diffuse, discrete, more or less present and occasionally absent concrete individual phenomena, which are arranged according to those one-sidedly emphasized viewpoints into a unified analytical construct. . . . In its conceptual purity, this mental construct . . . cannot be found empirically anywhere in reality" (1903-1917/1949, p. 90). | Link**
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