Verstehenn.
/fɛːˈʃteɪən/ Social Science.
The use of empathy to understand human action and behaviour, as a method of interpreting historical and sociological phenomena.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [noun] > theories or methods of analysis
reflexivity1662
social statics1843
social causation1848
sociography1881
functionalism1904
class analysis1919
culturalism1919
mass observation1920
survey1927
participant observation1933
participant observing1933
Verstehen1934
panel technique1938
MO1939
ahistoricism1940
historicism1940
technologism1940
action research1945
metasociology1950
pattern variable1951
structural functionalism1951
structuralism1951
panel analysis1955
cliometrics1960
unilinearism1964
technology assessment1966
symbolic interactionism1969
modernization theory1972
processualism1972
postcolonialism1974
decontextualization1976
decontextualizing1980
structurism1989
1934 Psychol. Bull. 31 298 Ch. Bühler makes use of Verstehen as well as statistics in her analysis of life histories.
1937 T. Parsons Struct. Social Action xvi. 583 This is the first appearance in Weber's methodology of the fundamentally important concept of Verstehen.
1948 T. 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.
1979 Internat. Jrnl. Sociol. of Law 7 327 Problems of verstehen sociology—that the analysis should have some regard to the meanings that the actors give to their actions.
Derivatives
verˈstehende adj. [feminine present participle of verstehen comprehend] employing Verstehen.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > study of society > [adjective] > theories or methods of analysis
functional1884
Webbite1890
neo-critical1894
structural-functional1898
Tolstoyan1898
functionalist1907
Webbian1913
Paretian1916
situational1916
Paretan1932
verstehende1933
reflexive1934
same-level1934
sociographic1934
idealistic1937
ideational1937
Parsonian1945
social Darwinist1945
culturalist1948
structural1948
contextualized1951
metasociological1953
structural functionalist1953
meta-sociologistic1964
Lévi-Straussian1967
postcolonial1970
decontextualized1971
cliometric1974
postcolonialist1981
intersectional1989
1933 Economica 13 31 In this sense verstehende sociology is rationalistic.
1974 R. Jessop Traditionalism, Conservatism & Brit. Polit. Culture i. 18 A pure verstehende technique which treats action as the logical concomitant of the actor's ideas, motives, reasons, and beliefs.
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