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Max Webers "Die sozialen Gründe des Untergangs der antiken Kultur": eine mechanismische Rekonstruktion in Petrinetzen
Max Weber's "Die sozialen Gründe des Untergangs der antiken Kultur": a mechanismic reconstruction by petri nets
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Abstract "Analyzing long term historical processes is not what social scientists mostly do. Nevertheless there exist interesting exceptions, e.g. a small text of Max Weber in which he deals systematically with the decline of the Roman Empire. This text shall be linked to two strands of contemporary discussio... view more
"Analyzing long term historical processes is not what social scientists mostly do. Nevertheless there exist interesting exceptions, e.g. a small text of Max Weber in which he deals systematically with the decline of the Roman Empire. This text shall be linked to two strands of contemporary discussions in social sciences. First with socionics which explores possibilities to analyze social phenomena by use of informatic modeling. This approach stimulates transforming an argumentation written in natural language into petri nets. Second to discussions about social mechanisms which seek to find new ways of process analysis and explanations in social sciences. Those mechanisms will be derived from Weber's text which can be considered the driving forces of the decline. In this way we aim at reviving Weber's old text as an example of a quite modern approach of processes analysis." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
antiquity; Roman Empire; national state; society; historical analysis; culture; historical development; failure of the state; slavery; advanced civilization; model; agriculture; town; Weber, M.; monetary economy; social factors; process analysis
Classification
General History
General Concepts, Major Hypotheses and Major Theories in the Social Sciences
Method
theory application; historical
Document language
German
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 309-337
Journal
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.2.309-337
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed