Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften

Kaufmann, Felix

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“…This is a major challenge to the positivist philosophy of science, but, as should be clear from what I have already said, it is a challenge that nevertheless shares much common ground – as regards assumptions about the nature of science – with the positivists. In this respect, Schutz’s position is the same as, and strongly influenced by, that of his friend Felix Kaufmann (1936a, 1936b, 1944; Hammersley, 2017a).…”

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Alfred Schutz and ethnomethodology: Origins and departures

Hammersley

2019

History of the Human Sciences

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The work of Alfred Schutz was an important early influence on Harold Garfinkel and therefore on the development of ethnomethodology. In this article, I try to clarify what Garfinkel drew from Schutz, as well as what he did not take from him, specifically as regards the task of social inquiry. This is done by focusing in detail on one of Schutz’s key articles: ‘Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences’. The aim is thereby to illuminate the relationship between Schutz’s views on the character of social science and Garfinkel’s radical proposal for a re-specified focus of investigation. This is further pursued by examining an important debate about the link between Schutz and ethnomethodology.

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Alfred Schutz and ethnomethodology: Origins and departures

Hammersley

2019

History of the Human Sciences

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“…And the same with Blaug. He refers to your introducing Popper's falsi®ability criterion (Blaug 1980: 94) ± but then he also talks, and you talked, about the fact that when you replied to Knight (1940), and Knight pressed you for your philosophical position you said`well, it's Wittgenstein, Russell and the British empiricists and Carnap and Schlick', and so on and then you also refer to Felix Kaufmann (1936). You say Kaufmann accepted the point of view labelled as positivist by Knight (Hutchison 1941: 735-6 (Kaufmann 1944).…”

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A conversation with Terence Hutchison

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2002

Journal of Economic Methodology

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The pigeonholing of Hutchison's methodology as positivist, ultra-empiricist or Popperian has militated against a full appreciation of his more complex position. In this as-verbatim-as-possible account of an afternoon's discussion with Hutchison, it is the directly personal manner in which we gain insights, rather than simply the insights themselves, that we hope will help towards a re-assessment. We learn of his non-positivist view that economics is an empirical-historical discipline distinct from the natural sciences; and his rejection of Popper's view that prediction in economics can and should be based on laws like the law of gravity. We hear of his wariness of relying on the hypothetico-deductivist methods of Popper and later positivists in a subject such as economics, and his support instead for the methodological views of Jacob Viner and the inductive methods associated with the historically and institutionally detailed approaches of Cliffe Leslie, Wesley Clair Mitchell and Henry Phelps Brown.T W Hutchison, Positivism, Popper, Formalism, Inductivism, Cliffe Leslie,

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“…die Soziologie zurückgeführt: Felix Kaufmann etwa versucht, auf der Grundlage des Kelsen'schen Positivismus die Möglichkeit der Sozialwissenschaft zu erkunden(Kaufmann 1936); der ehemalige Schüler und Anhänger Kelsens Fritz San-lich…”

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Juridische Soziologien

Schweitzer¹

2021

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Why did the subject of law play a central role in sociology as it emerged? And why is this no longer the case today? This study explains this transformation of the sociological interest in law by means of a genealogical investigation into the mutual references between the jurisprudence of private law and sociology: the way in which, from a legal perspective starting in the 19th century, law has been addressed as a social phenomenon in the face of concrete problems is reflected in the early sociologies of Émile Durkheim, Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber. This has led to a mutual demarcation, which places law and sociology in a problematic relationship to each other for the future.

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Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften

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Alfred Schutz and ethnomethodology: Origins and departures

Alfred Schutz and ethnomethodology: Origins and departures

A conversation with Terence Hutchison

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