Round 1
Mental constructs, where specific assumed key
elements from a phenomenon are combined in a systematic and
rational matter, and other assumed less important elements are left
out.
What are ideal types?
A person has this type of authority not because of habit, or because of laws, rules and regulations demand it, but because extra human powers are attributed to.
When do we speak of a person having Charismatic authority?
It consists of the shared beliefs and ways of action of a particular collective and aggregate social pattern such as networks, segregation, and inequality.
How do Hedstrom and Bearman define the Macro level of the social world or social facts?
Values
What should not play a role while doing research and should not influence your outcomes?
Standardization and codification of rules in written form, rules and regulations connected to laws.
Name one of the characteristics of Bureaucracy according to Weber.
This means rejecting the primacy of attributional categories and other substantives in favor of dynamic, “observable processes-in-relations”
What does Emirbayer mean with the anti-categorical imparative?
Explanations of specific, unique social phenomena, such as war or revolution.
What is the defintion of Abend's theory type 2?
The dimensions of values that categorize the expectations and the structure of relationships.
What are pattern variables according to Parsons?
The very terms or units involved in a transaction derive their meaning, significance, and identity from the (changing) functional roles they play within that transaction.
How does Emirbayer describe the relational approach with the help of the concept of transaction?
We refrain from assuming anything about theory its nature (ontology) or what characteristics validate it as a legitimate form of knowledge (epistemology).
What is implied by the semantic approach to theory according to Abend?
When you are successful in obtaining society's goals by using the structurally defined means within that society
When does Merton speak of conformity in this theory of deviance?
A thought process is placed between stimulus and response.
How does action differ from behavior acccording to Weber?
To make the mistake of assuming there is an object, "the theory," and that we can track it down through our conceptualizations.
What is the "socratic error" according to Abend?
Individuals, their actions and properties and also their relations to other individuals and relational structures should be considered.
what do Hedström and Bearman stress in how their approach of mechanism explanations differs from methodological individualism?
This approach is characterized by variables that interact, but actors that stay unchanged themselves.
What is the characteristic of the inter-action based variable centered approach in sociology according to Emirbayer?