id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7681 Sociology - Wikipedia .html text/html 19199 2143 50 Both Weber and Georg Simmel pioneered the "Verstehen" (or 'interpretative') method in social science; a systematic process by which an outside observer attempts to relate to a particular cultural group, or indigenous people, on their own terms and from their own point of view.[43] Through the work of Simmel, in particular, sociology acquired a possible character beyond positivist data-collection or grand, deterministic systems of structural law. Symbolic interaction—often associated with interactionism, phenomenology, dramaturgy, interpretivism—is a sociological approach that places emphasis on subjective meanings and the empirical unfolding of social processes, generally accessed through micro-analysis.[79] This tradition emerged in the Chicago School of the 1920s and 1930s, which, prior to World War II, "had been the center of sociological research and graduate study."[80] The approach focuses on creating a framework for building a theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7681.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7681.txt