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‖ Verstehen Social Sci.|fɛrˈʃteːən|
Also ver-.
[Ger., comprehension.]
The use of empathy to understand human action and behaviour, as a method of interpreting historical and sociological phenomena. Also verˈstehende (fem. pres. pple. of verstehen comprehend) a., employing Verstehen.
1933Economica XIII. 31 In this sense verstehende sociology is rationalistic. 1934Psychol. Bull. XXXI. 298 Ch. Bühler makes use of Verstehen as well as statistics in her analysis of life histories. 1937T. Parsons Structure Social Action xvi. 583 This is the first appearance in Weber's methodology of the fundamentally important concept of Verstehen. 1948T. Abel in Feigl & Brodbeck Readings in Philos. of Sci. (1953) 682 The characteristic feature of the operation of Verstehen is the postulation of an intervening process ‘located’ inside the human organism, by means of which we recognize an observed..connection as relevant. 1974R. D. Jessop Traditionalism, Conservatism & Brit. Political Culture i. 18 A pure verstehende technique which treats action as the logical concomitant of the actor's ideas, motives, reasons, and beliefs. 1979Internat. Jrnl. Sociol. of Law VII. 327 Problems of verstehen sociology—that the analysis should have some regard to the meanings that the actors give to their actions. |