Max Weber i pozitivisti Uticaj naučnog ambijenta na formiranje metodologije Maxa Webera
Max Weber and Positivists – the Influence of Scientific Environment on Establishing Methodology by Max Weber

Summary/Abstract: Max Weber’s methodology is a consistent system that is referent and influential even nowadays. As one of the key participants of a famous years-long methodological polemic which was going on amongst European scientific circles in the first part of the 20th century and is known today as “Controversy over methods” (”Methodenstreit”), in a series of studies which were often very debatable, Weber established some fundamental criteria, categories and concepts that set up the basis for methodologies of social sciences. Although his postulates were original in many segments, it is clear that he was influenced by some modern theoreticians and their studies. The biggest influence on Weber were historicism, classic German idealism and positivism. The subject of this brief analysis is an attempt to perceive divergence points between positivism and positive philosophy and Weber’s methodology, and to determine their contact points where there is communication and that critical nexus. Considering that there are ongoing contemporary polemics on naturalistic, exact exclusivity of modern science, it will be very interesting and instructive to recall how Weber managed to reconcile the cold, empiric, naturalistic exactness with a broader, theoretical framework found in idealistic German tradition.

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