According to Weber, objectivity is also known as
a) empathetic understanding
b) value neutrality
c) iron will
d)All of the above
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To understand to human behaviour : For Max Weber ‘social action’ included all human behaviour that was meaningful, that is, action to which actors attached a meaning. In studying social action the sociologist’s task was to recover the meanings attributed by the actor. To accomplish this task the sociologist had to put themselves in the actor’s place, and imagine what these meanings were or could have been.Sociology was thus a systematic form of ‘empathetic understanding’, that is an understanding based not on ‘feelings for’ (sympathy) but ‘feeling with’ (empathy). The empathic (or empathic) understanding which sociologits derive from this exercise enable them to access the subjective meanings and motivations of social actors.Weber called this kind of objectivity ‘Value neutrality’. The sociologist must neutrally record subjective values without being affected by her/his own feelings/opinions about these values. Weber recognised that this was very difficult to do because social scientists were also members of society and always had their own subjective beliefs and prejudices.
Hence option D is correct
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To understand to human behaviour : For Max Weber ‘social action’ included all human behaviour that was meaningful, that is, action to which actors attached a meaning. In studying social action the sociologist’s task was to recover the meanings attributed by the actor. To accomplish this task the sociologist had to put themselves in the actor’s place, and imagine what these meanings were or could have been.Sociology was thus a systematic form of ‘empathetic understanding’, that is an understanding based not on ‘feelings for’ (sympathy) but ‘feeling with’ (empathy). The empathic (or empathic) understanding which sociologits derive from this exercise enable them to access the subjective meanings and motivations of social actors.Weber called this kind of objectivity ‘Value neutrality’. The sociologist must neutrally record subjective values without being affected by her/his own feelings/opinions about these values. Weber recognised that this was very difficult to do because social scientists were also members of society and always had their own subjective beliefs and prejudices.
Hence option D is correct
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