Lecture 4 slides Flashcards
Why should the objects of study be seen as subjects accordig to Risjord?
To take subjects own perspectives into account
*I It creates nterpretation, Verstehen,
sense-making
What is the ideal type acording to Max weber?
A concept created by the The unique character of social inquiry. A ideal types must include typical motivations, attitudes, and
meanings
How is an ideal type obtained?
By means of a one-sided accentuation (benadrukken) of one or a number of viewpoints and through the synthesis of a great many diffuse and discrete individual phenomena.
Door een eenzijdige accentuering van één of meerdere gezichtspunten en door de synthese (opbouw) van een groot aantal diffuse (brede) en discrete individuele verschijnselen
Why do people follow legitmacy and domination according to weber?
By Charismatics, traditions, and rational-legal domination
What is Alfred Shutz critique to webers ideal type?
Weber’s ideal types are still constructions of the social scientist, and not subjects own perspectives.
What are the two levels in describing and explaning behavior.
- Common-sense thinking (subjects’ perspective)
- Social-scientific models (scientists’ construction)
What is the postulate of adequacy?
Each term in a scientific model of human action must be constructed in such a way that the typical construct would be understandable for the
actor himself as well as his fellow-men in terms of common-sense interpretation of everyday life.”
What are the two potential flaws of the postulate of adequacy?
Too strong?
*(i) Science can require technical jargon that is hard
to understand. (ii) Nothing to discover?
Too weak?
*Mere understandability doesn’t guarantee an actual
connection to people’s common sense perspective.
How should social scientific concepts be composed according to Geertz?
Schützs two levels as two
languages: social scientific concepts as
translations of subjects’ language. Thick and Thin description
What is a thic description?
Thick descriptions include characteristic intentions, meanings, rules, practices in a community or culture.
Example:
*Thin: Sue raises her arm.
*Thick: Sue waves at her friend to greet her.
What is the goal of interpretive social sciences acoring by Geertz?
To thickly describe the culture, and thereby express in the interpreter’s language the relationships that make the subjects social `world meaningful
What is a problem of Geertz thick description making?
Generalizations about ‘the’ culture are the researcher’s construction.
In which minority or marginalized perspectives may be
ignored or silenced.
This perspective may then even take or reinforce a position of power in a society.
examples:
There isnt a thing a “the” dutchmen, the culture, etc.
Of what does a realism term consist of?
The social scientist’s concepts, ideal types, language,
thick descriptions accurate representations of an independently existing social reality.
Of what does a constructibism term consist of?
The social scientist’s concepts create or construct that social reality?
What is grounded theory?
A middle course between Naturalism and Interpretivism.
Consists of:
*Open-ended ‘sensitizing concepts’
*Collect data about observable behavior
*But also interviews and other qualitative data
*Look for patterns
*Develop theoretical generalizations(not statistical, or laws of behavior)
*Back and forth
