Weber’s sociology—‘verstehend’ or ‘deutend’?

Bruun, Hans Henrik

doi:10.15543/mws/2016/1/4

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Relationality As Communication1

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2018

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The problem (and solution) is to understand what was meant by the sender, that is the officer who sent the message. This then allows the correct interpretation of the message (Weber, 2012) (p. 61) (Bruun, 2016;p. 43-44).…”

Section: Relationality As Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pure Relationality as a Sociological Theory of Communication

Whimster

2018

Front. Sociol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In order to explain the success of populist politicians use of social media, we need to subtract the social from relationality and separate social relationships from network theory applications. A pure theory of relationality is suggested by Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough in quantum mechanics. It is argued that sociology, to its detriment, has failed to incorporate a theory of communication, one adequate to the explosion of social media and the recent rise of populist politics, here instanced by Donald Trump. Realizing the underlying importance of communication technology in all social relationships, and treating these two aspects in a complementary fashion, is the purpose of this essay in sociological theory.

show abstract

Section: Relationality As Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pure Relationality as a Sociological Theory of Communication

Whimster

2018

Front. Sociol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Weber’s sociology—‘verstehend’ or ‘deutend’?

Cited by 1 publication

References 5 publications

Pure Relationality as a Sociological Theory of Communication

Pure Relationality as a Sociological Theory of Communication

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About