Regis A Factor

Biographic Data

ID302545
NAMERegis A Factor
GIVEN NAMESRegis A
FAMILY NAMEFactor
SIGNATUREFACTOR R A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Florida
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS119
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX6

  • Epilogue

    Stephen P Turner, Regis A FactorCHAPTERMax Weber2020

    Max Weber gave “sociological” historical explanations and constructed sociological categories, and wrote critically on questions of “methodology.” But he did not erect an ideal social science to which he urged others to aspire. He considered the limitations and prospects of the social science he himself practiced to coincide with the limitations of the possibility of social science, and sought in his methodological writings to understand these li…

  • Interests and Ideals

    Stephen P Turner, Regis A FactorCHAPTERMax Weber2020

    “Interests” constituted, for both Ihering and Max Weber, a level of explanation that was prior to and distinct from the level of intention. But they disagreed about the contents of the category and in particular about the way in which interests arise. The key to the difference is in their divergent conceptions of ideal interests. The conceptual consequence of admitting the validity of collective interests (such as the interest of society) is that…

  • Cause

    Stephen P Turner, Regis A FactorCHAPTERMax Weber2020

    This chapter provides an account of the concepts of adequate cause and objective possibility, based for the most part on clues and citations which Max Weber himself provides. The dominant jurisprudential theory of cause prior to the theory of adequate cause was the von Buri-von Bar theory. It held that responsibility attached to those actions that were necessary conditions of a harmful result. The benefit Weber receives as a result of the substit…

  • Authority

    Stephen P Turner, Regis A FactorCHAPTERMax Weber2020

    The phenomena of legal order appear first in Max Weber’s categorization scheme under the heading “uniformities of action” as a type of uniformity parallel to “usage.” But Weber’s classification is itself confusing, precisely because of Weber’s attempt to integrate the concept of validity into the scheme. The two basic types of order are convention and law. Weber distinguishes them in terms of the causes that externally guarantee their legitimacy,…

  • Abstraction

    Stephen P Turner, Regis A FactorCHAPTERMax Weber2020

    The problems of abstraction in the law were distinctive, and had a distinctive history quite unlike that of natural science. At the root of the discipline of legal science itself was the practice of abstraction that was distinctive to civil law. Max Weber had a great deal to say about the processes of legal rationalization, about the role of maxims and casuistics, and about abstraction in the law. His discussions of abstraction relate broadly, bu…

  • Common Starting Points

    Stephen P Turner, Regis A FactorCHAPTERMax Weber2020

    The idea of law as a world constituting system of concepts is a product of a changed view of the character of “reason” and “fact” that resulted from the appropriation of Kant in the nineteenth century by the neo-Kantians. The idea that many intellectual disputes were in fact rationally undecidable “conflicts of systems” or conflicts of fundamental presuppositions is the primary legacy of neo-Kantianism. The traditional “social theoretical” approa…

  • The Commands of Morality

    Stephen P Turner, Regis A FactorCHAPTERMax Weber2020

    The idea of the power of customary morality or moral attitudes exemplifies the problem of the nature of morality. The point of formalism was to avoid a certain kind of reasoning, exemplified by F. Nietzsche’s early formulations, in which the universal claims of morality were reduced to the status of local custom, and custom to tradition, on genealogical grounds. Nietzsche claimed that Morality is nothing other than obedience to customs, of whatev…

  • Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker

    Stephen P Turner, Gianfranco Poggi et al.BOOKMax Weber2020Cited by: 21

    This book is the first account of the way in which Weber appropriated and modified sources in the legal tradition, in which he was trained, to construct his sociology. It leads directly to a new understanding of Weber's intent and his relations to the tradition of social and political theory. the book takes the reader into the heart of Weber's conceptualizations of action and social science, without ever giving the impression that these are raref…

  • Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value

    Stephen P Turner, Stephen Turner et al.BOOKMax Weber and the Dispute over…2014

  • Max Weber Dispute Reas & Value MW3

    Regis A Factor, Stephen P TurnerBOOKMax Weber Dispute Reas & Value MW32006

  • Max Weber: The Lawyer As Social Thinker

    Regis A Factor, Stephen Turner et al.BOOKMax Weber2003Cited by: 21

  • Max Weber: The Lawyer as Social Thinker

    W T Murphy, Stephen P Turner et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1995Cited by: 4

  • Die Fruhe Deutsche Soziologie, 1909 bis 1934, und ihre Entstehungs-Milieus: Eine Wissenschaftssoziologische Untersuchung

    Regis A Factor, Dirk KaslerARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986Cited by: 5

  • Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value

    Open AccessSusan Hekman, Stephen P Turner et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Sociology1986Cited by: 11

  • Revisionism and Empire: Socialist Imperialism in Germany, 1897-1914

    Regis A Factor, Roger FletcherARTICLEGerman Studies Review1985

  • Max Weber: A Classic Analyzed

    Steven Seidman, Robert Eden et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985

  • Max Weber and the Dispute over Reason and Value: A Study of Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics

    Ronald M Glassman, Stephen P Turner et al.ARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1985Cited by: 13

  • Max Weber and the dispute over reason and value: A Study in Philosophy, Ethics, and Politics

    Stephen P Turner, Stephen Turner et al.BOOKMax Weber and the dispute over…1984Cited by: 19

    Introduction 1. Problems of context and interpretation 2. Reason and decision: Weber's core doctrine and value choices i. The nature of value choice ii. Weber's 'scholarly' value choice iii. Weber's 'political' value choice 3. Weber's political design 4. The Weimar era dispute 5. Words into action: Jaspers and Heidegger 6. Nazism, Fascism and the later dispute 7. The ermergence of the dispute in England i. The English crisis of culture ii. The Am…

  • Weber's influence in Weimar Germany

    Open AccessRegis A Factor, Stephen P Turner et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of the…1982

    The thesis that Weber was without influence in Weimar Germany is examined. It is shown that in contemporary published assessments and in private statements in interviews contemporary sociologists regarded him as important. The many dissertations on Weber and the enormous secondary literature are noted. This literature, which was contributed by some of the best minds of the day, included both the philosophical and sociological aspects of Weber's w…

  • Objective Possibility and Adequate Causation in Weber's Methodological Writings

    Open AccessStephen P Turner, Stephen Turner et al.ARTICLEThe Sociological Review1981Cited by: 20

  • The limits of reason and some limitations of Weber's morality

    Open AccessRegis A Factor, Stephen P Turner et al.ARTICLEHuman Studies1979Cited by: 4References: 6

  • Theoretical Structure and the Problem of Theory and Practice

    Open AccessRegis A Factor, Stephen P Turner et al.ARTICLEHumanity & Society1979Cited by: 1