ThreeInterpretations ofWeber'sAporia. He defines “Max Weber's initial statement of the goal ofinterpretive sociology"as “to study social behavior byinterpreting its subjective meaning found in the intentions ofindividual individuals. The aim then, is to interpret the actionsof individuals in the social world and the ways in whichindividuals give meaning to social phenomena. But to attain thisaim, it does not suffice either to observe the behavior of a singleindividual or to collect statistics about the behavior of groups ofindividuals, as a crude empiricism would have us to believe.Rather, the special aim of sociology demands a special method inorder to select the materials relevant to the particular questions itraise."(Schutz,1967,Pp.6-7)
Three Interpretations of Weber’s Aporia . He defines “Max Weber’s initial statement of the goal of interpretive sociology ” as “to study social behavior by interpreting its subjective meaning found in the intentions of individual individuals. The aim, then, is to interpret the actions of individuals in the social world and the ways in which individuals give meaning to social phenomena. But to attain this aim, it does not suffice either to observe the behavior of a single individual or to collect statistics about the behavior of groups of individuals, as a crude empiricism would have us to believe. Rather, the special aim of sociology demands a special method in order to select the materials relevant to the particular questions it raise.” (Schutz, 1967, Pp.6-7)
ThreeInterpretationsofWeber'sAporiaJurgenHabermas in his bookOntheLogicof theSocialSciences(1988/1967)also starts with Weber'saporiaOn the Logicof the Social SciencesJirgen Habermastranslated byShierry Weber Nicholsentand JerryA.Stark
Three Interpretations of Weber’s Aporia Jurgen Habermas in his book On the Logic of the Social Sciences (1988/1967) also starts with Weber’s aporia