Biography intellectual max weber pdf
A concise and incisive look at the man and personality behind the thought, Max er is a masterful outing in intellectual biography and social theory..
In this intellectual biography a long-time teacher of Max er's thought offers us an advanced introduction to that thinker's most essential texts.
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
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Lynn Davidman
1997
I began my career as a sociologist exploring people, places and issues that have great valence for me personally.
Throughout my academic life, beginning with my undergraduate coursework, I have engaged in intellectual work at least partly as a way to better understand my own life. I pursued several fields of inquiry-psychology and religious studies-before coming upon the sociological lens, which provided me with the most satisfying ways of asking questions and seeking answers.
By placing individual experience within larger contexts, and by tracing the linkages between self and society, biography and history, sociology offers a broad perspective in which to understand individuals' lives and the factors that shape us.
The issues that have been most central to me, given the facts of my biography, revolve around the themes of meaning