THE SUBJECT-OBJECT RELATIONSHIP IN MAX WEBER'S COMPREHENSIVE SOCIOLOGY

Abstract

In a didactic manner, the article revisits the issue of the subject-object relationship in Max Weber's sociology with the aim of presenting the way of doing sociology from a comprehensive perspective. It addresses the problem of understanding the concept of 'value neutrality,' demonstrating that its transmission is sometimes qualified in a scientistic way, displacing its original relationship within the hermeneutic school. It also deals with the inductive nature in the description of data observation in the task of conceptual ordering of empirical reality, according to Weberian perspectivism. It concludes that the Weberian perspective still offers an important epistemic source for research practice for the social scientist today.