A SOCIOLOGIA DE WEBER NO PENSAMENTO DE ELIAS

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Abstract

With this article, we aim to analyze how certain suggestions by an author considered as a classic of sociological theory inspired the work and the thinking of the German sociologist Norbert Elias (1897-1990). In this case, we will focus on the ideas and referential of Max Weber (1864-1920). In this way, it will be described how the contribution of the classic was taken up by the contemporary author in dimensions such as union and / or dialogue between different disciplines, the compatibilization between explain and understand, and the approach of long term processes. Thus, the argument that runs through this writing is that the contribution of the classic is central to the task of understanding the course of ideas of the contemporary author, there being a creative, though not always evident, articulation of the theorist's suggestions at the heart of the renewing sociology practiced by Elias. To fuel this discussion, we will throw some reflections, mostly inclined to argue about how the sociology of sociology classics as well as their reception - as well as assisting in the more sophisticated understanding of punctual intellectual contexts, or of wider social processes - , may be strategic to better recover the heuristic value of the contributions of the classics, and even of contemporary sociologists.

Keywords: Norbert Elias. Max Weber. Sociology Classics. Sociology of Knowledge.