Discuss the role Max Weber played in Schutz’s work on meaning.
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In casting interpretive understanding, or Verstehen, as the principal objective of sociology, Weber offered a distinctive counter to those who sought to base sociology on the effort to uncover universal laws applicable to all societies. Schutz sought to expand on Weber’s conceptualization of Verstehen and interpretive sociology (verstedhende Soziologie) by formulating his own concept of meaning. In other words, while agreeing with Weber that social science must be interpretive, Schutz finds that Weber had failed to state clearly the essential characteristics of understanding (Verstehen), of subjective meaning (gemeinter Sinn), or of action (Handeln) (Walsh:xxi).
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