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Type Methodology and Type Myth: Some Antecedents of Max Weber's Approach *
Author(s) -
Goodman Mark Joseph
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
sociological inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.446
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1475-682X
pISSN - 0038-0245
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1975.tb01213.x
Subject(s) - sociology , mythology , type (biology) , epistemology , division (mathematics) , social science , philosophy , mathematics , biology , theology , ecology , arithmetic
The methodological proposals of Windelband, Knies, Schmoller, Menger, Simmel, Dilthey and Rickert are surveyed and compared. Two difficulties in the writings are identified: the strict division which is urged (or accepted) between science and history, and the tendency to treat societies as “social wholes,” which have an autonomous existence and are self‐developing.