Peter Winch’s critical remarks concerning Max Weber’s interpretive sociology are centered around the notions of “rule” and “rule-following.” While Winch gave credit to Weber for much of his theoretical insight, he nevertheless found his account unsatisfactory for two reasons: its neglect of rules and rule-following in social life, and its apparent reliance on causal explanations. This article attempts to show how Winch might have been less than charitable on both of these accounts: that once one pays close attention to Weber’s concept of a “rule,” and to his ideas concerning “adequate causation,” the two frameworks for interpretive sociology could turn out to be much more similar than it is usually assumed.

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重新评估“游戏规则”：Max Weber 和 Peter Winch 关于遵守规则

彼得·温奇 (Peter Winch) 对马克斯·韦伯 (Max Weber) 的解释性社会学的批判性评论集中在“规则”和“遵循规则”的概念上。虽然温奇对韦伯的大部分理论洞察力给予了肯定，但他发现他的描述并不令人满意，原因有两个：它忽视了社会生活中的规则和遵循规则，以及它明显依赖于因果解释。本文试图说明温奇如何在这两个方面都不够慈善：一旦密切关注韦伯的“规则”概念，以及他关于“充分因果关系”的思想，解释社会学的两个框架结果可能比通常假设的要相似得多。