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The first four chapters examined the deeper historical roots of Weber’s world-view. This chapter seeks to show how that worldview engaged with the issues of his own time when the demand arose to solve problems defined as ‘social’ and there was a general requirement for social facts. I shall advance the view that Weber’s creative use of his own cultural heritage made him particularly fitted and ready to take up those issues.
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© 1990 Martin Albrow
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Albrow, M. (1990). Towards a Science of Social Reality. In: Max Weber’s Construction of Social Theory. Contemporary Social Theory. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20879-1_6
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