Max weber and Alfred Schutz: The theoretical and methodological background of the case-oriented quantification approach behind winMAX

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 369-378

  Colins, Olivier ^a   Broekaert, Eric ^a   Vandevelde, Stijn ^a   Van Hove, Geert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alfred Schutz; Case oriented quantification approach; Ideal types; Max Weber; Verstehen; WinMAX

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249092787     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439307309849     Document Type: Article

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