Thomas Burger
Biographic Data
| ID | 101307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Burger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Burger |
| SIGNATURE | BURGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3539-3564 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Max Weber's Methodology in Its Place
The Creativity of Action
Die Intellektuellen und die Nation: Eine Deutsche Achsenzeit
Weber's sociology and Weber's personality
Die Dimensionen der Ungleichheit in der modernen Gesellschaft
Recent developments in advanced industrial societies have increased the prominence of kinds of social inequality not adequately accomodated in traditional theories of class and social stratification. It is argued that the source of this failure is not, as has been claimed, the vertical imagery informing these theories, but rather their one-dimensionality, i.e., their assumption of a single unitary distributive mechanism as the essential generator…
Rekonstruktion von Handlungen: Alltagsintuitionen und soziologische Begriffsbildung
Dieses Buch ist aus meiner skeptischen Einschatzung der Entwicklung der Soziologie in den letzten Jahrzehnten heraus entstanden. Zum einen hat sich die Theorie gegenOber der uns umgebenden Wirklichkeit des Lebens (Weber) verselbstandigt, so daB es haufig unklar ist, worOber sie Aussagen macht. Zum anderen werden in der Theorie wie auch in der Empirie haufig Begriffe verwendet, deren Bezug zu den sozialen Tatsa chen ungeklart ist. Das Ziel dieses …
Civil Society and Political Life
Reviewed work: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. by Jurgen Habermas; Thomas Burger; Frederick Lawrence
Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923. Harry Liebersohn
The structural transformation of the public sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies. -- Book cover
Values, Neo-Kantianism, and the Development of Weberian Methodology
Weber's Methodology
Guy Oakes Weber and Rickert. Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988), 190 pp
Concepts and Reality, Values and ValidityThe Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science: A Logical Introduction to the Historical Sciences.Heinrich Rickert , Guy Oakes
Sociological and Estrangement: Three Sociologists of Imperial Germany
Max Weber's theory of concept formation: History, Laws, and Ideal Types
Multidimensional Problems: A Critique of Jeffrey Alexander's Theoretical Logic in Sociology
This article examines Jeffrey Alexander's effort to overcome the impasse of sociology's entrenchment into opposing utilitarian and normativistic camps. The utilitarian and normativistic perspectives are described, and some of the requirements for a successful synthesis are stated. It is shown that Alexander does not actually attempt such a synthesis himself, but is content to present Weber's and Parsons's efforts in this direction. It is argued t…
Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Hu…
The Rise of Western Rationalism: Max Weber's Developmental History
Max Webers Wissenschaftsprogramm
Revisiting Wertheimer's Seminars
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Reply to Parsons
Critique of Stammler
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Droysen and the idea ofVerstehen
The conception of Verstehen (understanding) has frequently been used in attempts to characterize the methodological and philosophical particularity of social science and history as against natural science. It is argued in this paper that these attempts must not primarily be interpreted as postulating differences in the logic of explanation. Rather, the notion of Verstehen has been employed mainly with the intention to emphasize the practical natu…
Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory
The structural transformation of the public sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies. -- Book cover
Max Weber's theory of concept formation: History, Laws, and Ideal Types
Critique of Stammler
Talcott Parsons, the Problem of Order in Society, and the Program of an Analytical Sociology
The persuasiveness of Parsons's solution to the Hobbesian problem of order rests on the conjunction of two premises, one substantivesociological, the other methodological. (1) Normative consensus may ensure order in a way which can be "generalized." (2) Sociology must be an "analytic" science. Both premises are criticized, the former because it is empirically false, the latter because in its Parsonian conception it would render sociology nonfalsi…
Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Hu…
Max Webers Wissenschaftsprogramm
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology, the Understanding of Actions and Motives, and a Weberian View of Man
Weber's interpretive sociology requires the understanding of motives, affectual states, and actions. These are understandable because they themselves represent or embody interpretations. The Weberian statements are shown to be compatible with a conception of the human individual as a being who interprets subjective experiences in terms of cultural categories and guides his conduct by such interpretations
Multidimensional Problems: A Critique of Jeffrey Alexander's Theoretical Logic in Sociology
This article examines Jeffrey Alexander's effort to overcome the impasse of sociology's entrenchment into opposing utilitarian and normativistic camps. The utilitarian and normativistic perspectives are described, and some of the requirements for a successful synthesis are stated. It is shown that Alexander does not actually attempt such a synthesis himself, but is content to present Weber's and Parsons's efforts in this direction. It is argued t…
The Creativity of Action
Max Weber, Interpretive Sociology, and the Sense of Historical Science: A Positivistic Conception of Verstehen
Weber's advocacy of understanding and an interpretive sociology is shown to be a consequence of the anthropological premises of his theory of concept formation in history. These premises, which are implied in his Rickertian conception of value-relevance as the foundation of historical knowledge, are that men are interested in understandable historical developments because of their practical involvement in society—they rely on historical knowledge…
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Droysen's Defense of Historiography: A Note
With Buckle's flat statement that all higher purposes of human thought history is still miserably deficient, and presents that confused and anarchical appearance natural to a subject of which laws are unknown, and even unsettled,1 age of methodological innocence had come to an end for historians. The indictment was derived from a relatively well-developed and systematic theory of science within whose framework historical accounts appeared as devo…
Droysen's Defense of Historiography: A Note
With Buckle's flat statement that all higher purposes of human thought history is still miserably deficient, and presents that confused and anarchical appearance natural to a subject of which laws are unknown, and even unsettled,1 age of methodological innocence had come to an end for historians. The indictment was derived from a relatively well-developed and systematic theory of science within whose framework historical accounts appeared as devo…
Max Weber, Interpretive Sociology, and the Sense of Historical Science: A Positivistic Conception of Verstehen
Weber's advocacy of understanding and an interpretive sociology is shown to be a consequence of the anthropological premises of his theory of concept formation in history. These premises, which are implied in his Rickertian conception of value-relevance as the foundation of historical knowledge, are that men are interested in understandable historical developments because of their practical involvement in society—they rely on historical knowledge…
Max Weber's Interpretive Sociology, the Understanding of Actions and Motives, and a Weberian View of Man
Weber's interpretive sociology requires the understanding of motives, affectual states, and actions. These are understandable because they themselves represent or embody interpretations. The Weberian statements are shown to be compatible with a conception of the human individual as a being who interprets subjective experiences in terms of cultural categories and guides his conduct by such interpretations
Talcott Parsons, the Problem of Order in Society, and the Program of an Analytical Sociology
The persuasiveness of Parsons's solution to the Hobbesian problem of order rests on the conjunction of two premises, one substantivesociological, the other methodological. (1) Normative consensus may ensure order in a way which can be "generalized." (2) Sociology must be an "analytic" science. Both premises are criticized, the former because it is empirically false, the latter because in its Parsonian conception it would render sociology nonfalsi…
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Reply to Parsons
Critique of Stammler
Max Weber's Theory of Concept Formation: History, Laws and Ideal Types
Droysen and the idea ofVerstehen
The conception of Verstehen (understanding) has frequently been used in attempts to characterize the methodological and philosophical particularity of social science and history as against natural science. It is argued in this paper that these attempts must not primarily be interpreted as postulating differences in the logic of explanation. Rather, the notion of Verstehen has been employed mainly with the intention to emphasize the practical natu…
Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory
The Logic of Social Systems: A Unified, Deductive, System-Based Approach to Social Science. Alfred Kuhn
Revisiting Wertheimer's Seminars
Max Webers Wissenschaftsprogramm
The Rise of Western Rationalism: Max Weber's Developmental History
Max Weber and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Huff provides a rare, full-scale study of the origins and development of Max Weber's methodology, which focuses on Weber's neglected early methodological essays that were not translated into English until the 1970s. He explores Weber's writings in light of developments in postempiricist philosophy of science, and shows that Weber was well aware of the epistemological foundations of the descriptive psychology school, whose intellectual heir was Hu…
Multidimensional Problems: A Critique of Jeffrey Alexander's Theoretical Logic in Sociology
This article examines Jeffrey Alexander's effort to overcome the impasse of sociology's entrenchment into opposing utilitarian and normativistic camps. The utilitarian and normativistic perspectives are described, and some of the requirements for a successful synthesis are stated. It is shown that Alexander does not actually attempt such a synthesis himself, but is content to present Weber's and Parsons's efforts in this direction. It is argued t…
Sociological and Estrangement: Three Sociologists of Imperial Germany
Max Weber's theory of concept formation: History, Laws, and Ideal Types
Values, Neo-Kantianism, and the Development of Weberian Methodology
Weber's Methodology
Guy Oakes Weber and Rickert. Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988), 190 pp
Concepts and Reality, Values and ValidityThe Limits of Concept Formation in Natural Science: A Logical Introduction to the Historical Sciences.Heinrich Rickert , Guy Oakes
Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923. Harry Liebersohn
The structural transformation of the public sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies. -- Book cover
Civil Society and Political Life
Reviewed work: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. by Jurgen Habermas; Thomas Burger; Frederick Lawrence
Die Dimensionen der Ungleichheit in der modernen Gesellschaft
Recent developments in advanced industrial societies have increased the prominence of kinds of social inequality not adequately accomodated in traditional theories of class and social stratification. It is argued that the source of this failure is not, as has been claimed, the vertical imagery informing these theories, but rather their one-dimensionality, i.e., their assumption of a single unitary distributive mechanism as the essential generator…
Sociology (21 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Epistemology (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory (15 works) · Social science (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · German Social Sciences and History (5 works)