Meaning Verstehen
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Verstehen


German term for understanding.
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Verstehen


German term that means to understand, perceive, know, and comprehend the nature and significance of a phenomenon. To grasp or comprehend the meaning intended or expressed by another. Weber used the term to refer to the social scientist's attempt to understand both the intention and the context of human action.
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Verstehen


Verstehen, which means to understand in German, is closely associated with Weberian interpetive sociology and is concerned with identifying the meaning as well as cause of socil phenomena.
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Verstehen


The effort to understand social behavior in terms of the motives individuals bring to it.
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The German term for interpretivism, coined by the sociologist Max Weber.
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The idea of understanding human behaviour by putting yourself in the position of those being studied, and trying to see things from their point of view.
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