Max Weber and Empirical Social Research

P. Lazarsfeld; A. Oberschall

DOI:10.2307/2091563

Corpus ID: 147603532

Max Weber and Empirical Social Research

@article{Lazarsfeld1965MaxWA,
  title={Max Weber and Empirical Social Research},
  author={P. Lazarsfeld and A. Oberschall},
  journal={American Sociological Review},
  year={1965},
  volume={30},
  pages={185}
}

P. Lazarsfeld, A. Oberschall

Published 1965

Sociology

American Sociological Review

Weber's earliest involvement in empirical social research included three investigations of agricultural and industrial labor conditions, workers' attitudes and work histories, using both questionnaires and direct observation. Weber used a relatively modern statistical approach in his fourth study, concerning psychological aspects of factory work, and in a fifth episode, a critique of another person's study of workers' attitudes, he advocated a quantitative or typological approach to qualitative… CONTINUE READING

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