Max Weber’s “model” of historical research

• Authors: Zbigniew Drozdowicz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This paper is a voice in the discussion on research procedures, postulated and put into practice by Max Weber. I’m particularly interested in his historical research and the outcomes he gained from it. I see in it some original solutions, including those, which might successfully be put (and they are) many times in modern humanistic research. Some of them, for example weberian modeling (today called “idealization”), became serious theories. By Weber himself this “modeling” is linked more to a research practice of his, then a formulated theory of scientific research. That’s why I use the quotation marks in the title of my paper.

Keywords

EN

“spirit” of capitalism; protestant ethics; historical generalizations; “modeling”; rationality; “profession as a mission

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2009

online

2015-08-04

Contributors

author

Zbigniew Drozdowicz