Categories "meaning" and "understanding" as the integration of ordinary and theoretical knowledge of sociological paradigms Max Weber

The main objective of weberianism is to update legacy of Max Weber, while maintaining the authenticity and integrity of the work a classic. One such problem is the search for the meaning of action actors and the formation of the corresponding logical categories and concepts. The main task of sociology, according to Weber, is that the level of scientific knowledge to understand and interpret the causal meaning that individuals invest in their actions on the everyday level in terms of the cultural significance of their actions and historical specificity. Preliminary reconstruction of semantic form and content of everyday life and existing social structures is a prerequisite for a preliminary empirical work, and such work can only "under certain circumstances, find social action that is important for understanding and explaining the relationship. On the basis of everyday experience, a sociologist trying to understand and explain the cause of social reality in which it is placed in its cultural uniqueness. As part of the science of reality, there is a search theoretically designed, typical, empirically provable regular leaks of human actions that produce and reproduce social institutions. Methodological views of Max Weber, in which meaning serves as an integrative module between ordinary and scientific knowledge can be represented in the following sequence: 1) study of semantic relations actors, including ordinary understanding of motivation, picture of the world and living conditions; 2) the scientific understanding of the intended meaning of the researcher actor, including analysis of the concepts and their relationships, specification of ideal types, the explanation of the causal relationships using goal-rational hypotheses, ideal types and concepts; 3) a causal explanation of a particular social phenomenon or a historical event with the ideal-typical concepts. Thus, the category washed acts as the major integrative module everyday and scientific knowledge. In this case, at the ordinary and scientific levels can be considered as the very category of meaning and understanding of the category. Within the framework of Weber's empirical understanding sociology should take into consideration the subjective and objective, rational and irrational. In its universal historical studies of religion, economics, and other types of domination. Weber argues persuasively productivity of its methodology, based on an understanding of the meaning of social action.

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