📔 Session A (SRG)¶
💬 Discussion of readings (Durkheim & Weber).
Durkheim: The Rules of Sociological Method and Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method (Excerpt)
“Objectivity” in social science and social policy. Excerpt from the Methodology of the Social Sciences
🎯 SRG goal: Contrast Durkheim’s irreducible social facts with Weber’s abstraction/ideal types.
📔 Session B (Workshop)¶
What makes a good model?
Groups are tasked with evaluating “bad” and “good” toy models.
Criteria: simplicity, clarity, generativity, transparency, theory link.
- Durkheim, E. (1982). The Rules of Sociological Method (S. Lukes, Ed.). Macmillan Education UK. 10.1007/978-1-349-16939-9
- Weber, M. (2017). Methodology of Social Sciences. Routledge. 10.4324/9781315124445