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| Understanding sociology: "Verstehende Soziologie" (German) is a scientific-theoretical concept for sociology that was developed by Max Weber at the beginning of the 20th century. According to this, the aim of sociology is to understand human action in an explanatory way, i.e. to understand the context in which an action takes place. See also sociology, understanding, M. Weber._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Verstehen (Sociology) - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 183 Verstehen/Weber/Habermas: (WeberVsPositivism SimmelVsPositivism) Habermas: The lifeworld term common in Verstehen follows everyday concepts, which initially only serve the narrative representation of historical events and social conditions. >G. Simmel, >M. Weber. HabermasVsVerstehen: The investigation of the functions that communicative action takes over for the preservation of a structurally differentiated life world is detached from this horizon. Solution/Habermas: methodical differentiation of system and environment. >System, >Lifeworld. IV 223 Verstehen/Habermas: when a "Verstehen" allows society to merge into the lifeworld, it binds itself to the perspective of the self-interpretation of the culture examined in each case; this internal perspective hides everything that (...) has an effect from the outside. A) In particular, approaches based on a culturalist concept of the lifeworld become entangled in the misconceptions of "hermeneutic idealism" (this term originates from A. Wellmer). >Hermeneutics. B) Its downside is a methodical descriptivism that denies itself justified claims with regard to explainability. (1) C) This applies above all to the phenomenological, linguistic and ethnomethodological variants of Verstehen, which generally do not go beyond the reformulations of a more or less trivial everyday knowledge. (HabermasVsVerstehen). 1.J. Habermas, Zur Logik der Sozialwissenschaften, Frankfurt 1970._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28