You Have Been Asked to Paraphrase What You Have Learned

Multiple Choice

You have been asked to paraphrase what you have learned about Max Weber's concept of verstehen in order to inform other first year sociology students about this concept. The following is your answer: Sociologist Max Weber argued that if we want to truly understand why individuals behave as they do we must ask them individually in order to learn what they believe about their own social world. Weber believes that people's meanings or the way they view and understand the world is directly related to their objective meanings of their world. How would you judge this answer?

A) Excellent (the statement is correct, with a clear and correct assumption about the concept)
B) Good (the statement is correct, but the assumption about the concept is incorrect)
C) Mediocre (the statement is correct, and the assumption about the concept is irrelevant)
D) Unacceptable (the statement is incorrect and the explanation is unclear and irrelevant)