The author of "Classical Judaism" and "Hinduism and Buddhism", this sociologist argued in On the Methodology of the Social Sciences that social scientists needed the concept of verstehen to make explanations.
The author of "Classical Judaism" and "Hinduism and Buddhism", this sociologist argued in On the Methodology of the Social Sciences that social scientists needed the concept of verstehen to make explanations. A leading theorist of liberal imperialism, he argued that social science could not be based on crude physical or economic explanations, and in his most famous work contended that rather than using technological or economic analysis, religous ideas should be used to analyze the rise of capitalism. FTP, who was this German author of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?
The author of "Classical Judaism" and "Hinduism and Buddhism", this sociologist argued in On the Methodology of the Social Sciences that social scientists needed the concept of verstehen to make explanations.
Max Weber