Understanding Sociological Perspectives: Interpreting Human Action and Ideal Types, Slides of Sociology

Download Understanding Sociological Perspectives: Interpreting Human Action and Ideal Types and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! Perspective The view of an object as seen from a particular position. According to Weber sociologists interpret social events from their own perspective. (Is there a single, unified Sociological perspective?) docsity.com First and Second order interpretation Social actors have an understanding of the situation; first order understanding. (Verstehende) sociologists seek to interpret this understanding: second order understanding • re: Schutz, Giddens • (What does sociological interpretation add to common-sense understanding?) docsity.com Nominalism/Realism • philosophical dispute over whether general terms, e.g. ‘class’, are: 1. just names that we give to sets of particular events (nominalism) or 2. refer to real, actually existing objects (realism) docsity.com Types of action – Affective – Habitual – Goal Rational – Value rational docsity.com