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Max Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on substantive problems in the theory and strategy of the social sciences. They were written between 1903 and 1917, the most productive of Max Weber's life, when he was working on his studies in the sociology of religion and Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Weber had done important work in economic and legal history and had taught economic theory. On the basis of original investigations, he had acquired a specialist's knowledge of the details of German economic and social structure. His always vital concern for the political prosperity of Germany among the nations thrust him deeply into discussion of political ideals and programs. Weber's methodology still holds interest for us. Some of its shortcomings, from the contemporary viewpoint, may be attributed to the fact that some of the methodological problems that he treated could not be satisfactorily resolved prior to certain actual developments in research technique. These few qualifications aside, the work remains a pioneering work in large scale social research, from one of the field's masters.

"Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their model. In this study, Paul Diesing defines science not by reference to these arbitrary norms delineated by those outside the field but in terms of norms implicit in what social scientists actually do in their everyday work."--Provided by publisher

"Auf der Grundlage einer Analyse von zwei Kinderzeichnungen werden bestehende sozialwissenschaftliche Methodenvorschläge zur Bildanalyse bezüglich ihrer Reichweite diskutiert, und zwar insbesondere diejenigen, die auf Panofskys Artikel 'Ikonographie und Ikonologie' (1975 (1932)) aufbauen. Denn die Kinderzeichnungen zeigen eine Dimension des Ausdrucks, welche mit diesen Methoden nicht erfasst werden kann. Eine konstitutionstheoretische Diskussion schließt sich an dieses Ergebnis an: Gibt es eine Gestaltungsdimension bei gemalten und gezeichneten Bildern, welche konstitutionstheoretisch noch ungenügend thematisiert wird und durch auf Panofsky aufbauende Methodenvorschläge nicht erreichbar ist?" (Autorenreferat)