The duality between action and structure: outline for a Weberian research programme

Authors

  • Wolfgang Schluchter Universidade de Mannheim

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7984.2016v15n34p18

Abstract

In this essay, I want to spell out the outline of such a Weberian research program. It can be

regarded as a third sociology, overcoming the opposition between methodological individualism
and holism. It is based on methodological relationism and on a two-sided and multi-level
explanatory model, employing the notion of the duality of structure and action. Its analytical
power is illustrated with reference to Weber’s study on ascetic Protestantism and on the economic ethic of the world religions.

Author Biography

Wolfgang Schluchter, Universidade de Mannheim

Doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade Livre de Berlim, com livre docência na Universidade de Mannheim. É professor emérito do Instituto Max Weber de Sociologia da Universidade de Heidelberg e um dos editores da coleção Max Weber Gesamtausgabe (MWG). Foi titular da Cátedra Max Weber em Erfurt (1997 a 2002) e Codiretor do Marsilius Kolleg da Universidade de Heidelberg (2007 a 2014).

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Published

2016-12-22

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 34 (2016)

Section

Special Issue 1 - Sociology and sociologists in Latin America: research, teaching, and interdisciplinarity in contemporary context

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