Weber and Interpretive Sociology in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Kivisto (0000-0003-3992-0659, Augustana College, corresponding author), William H Swatos (University of Manitoba) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 149-163 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1990.tb00322.x |
| OpenAlex | W2008916819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 58 |
This article examines the role of Weber's methodological writings on verstehende Soziologie in the construction of an American variant of interpretive sociology during the first half of the twentieth century. It thereby illustrates the connections between intellectual appropriation and the academic institutionalization of competing sociological schools. After reviewing Weber's general reception in American sociology, it focuses on the respective relevance of Weber for symbolic interaction, which developed out of the Chicago School; Parsonian action theory; and the phenomenological social theory of Alfred Schutz. Three conclusions emerge. First, the symbolic interactionists and their predecessors operated with the implicit assumption that they did not need Weber. Second, Weber was not only intellectually valuable to Parsons, but also useful in his quest for intellectual hegemony. Finally, Schutz, in offering a third, alternative and competing interpretation of Weber, served to complicate this struggle between the two American sociological schools
Action (physics) · Appropriation · Epistemology · Hegemony · History of sociology · Institutionalisation · Interpretation (philosophy) · Politics · Relevance (law) · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Weber and Rickert
Social thought from lore to science
The Dilemma of Qualitative Method
The Flight from Ambiguity
Science as a Vocation
The Polish peasant in Europe and America
Theories and theory groups in contemporary American sociology
Structure of Social Action
The coming crisis of western sociology
Symbolic Interactionism in the Post-Blumerian Age
Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory
Calvinism and Capitalism
Alfred Schutz
Twenty Lectures Sociological Theory Since World War II
The Natural History of the Folk Society
Robert E. Park and the Theoretical Content of Chicago Sociology
The Theory of Social Action
New School
W. I. Thomas on Social Organization and Social Personality
Liberalism and the Origins of European Social Theory
The Fields and Methods of Sociology
Fate and Utopia in German Sociology, 1870-1923
New School
The Nature and Types of Sociological Theory
The Chicago School
Quest for an American Sociology
Max Weber's Political Sociology
Max Weber und Karl Marx
Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order
A theory of social interaction
The Political and Social Theory of Max Weber
Max Weber's 'Science as a Vocation
Black and Blue in Chicago
Sociology as a Vocation
Weber's Verstehen and the History of Qualitative Research
On the Divergence of Weber and Durkheim
The Changing Foundations of the Parsonian Action Scheme
De-Parsonizing Weber
Faith of the Fathers
Formal and Substantive Voluntarism in the Work of Talcott Parsons
Faith of the Fathers
A problem for the sociology of knowledge the mutual unawareness of Émile Durkheim and Max Weber
Politics, Character, and Culture
Early American Sociology and the Polish Peasant
Interactionism and the Study of Race Relations at the Macro-sociological Level
The Chicago School of Sociology, 1918-1933
Sociological Theory from the Chicago Dominance to 1965
Interpretive Sociology is Not Part of a Psychology
Sense' and 'Intention' in Max Weber's Theory of Social Action
Sociology and the Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2016 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |