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Weber view of history
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Fragmentary and ahistorical. No knowledge of the world can be complete
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Weber view of reality
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Reality is unattainable because investigator and scope of inquiry are limited
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Weber view of theory
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Theory is the foundation of inquiry. Application of knowledge to inquiry is marginal
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Weber view of social science knowledge
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Social science explains through empirical findings
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Weber view of politics
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Social scientist is apolitical and objective
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Weber view of values
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Values separated from facts that are a basis for inquiry. Empirical science cannot provide binding norms.
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Weber view of laws
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History has no common laws . History cannot generate general laws for social science
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Weber view of capitalism
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Promtoes development through rationalization, efficiency, and stability
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Weber view of dialectic
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Capitalism transcends its contradictions through rational planning
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Weber view of society
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Ultimately secular and rationally bureacratic in industrial capitalism. Competition. The highest good viewed in a nationalist context
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Weber view of state
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Strengthens with industrial capitalism, imperialist expansions, and rationalzation of bureacratic order
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Weber view of action
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Actors reflect on subjective meaning of what they do or refrain from doing
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Weber view of industrial freedom
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Possible under capitalism, as long as people can choose among alternative life styles
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Weber view of heuristic device (construct or categories)
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Ideal tyoes in comparison with real situations
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Weber view of method
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Ideal typification
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