This essay provides evidence to support a promising conceptual and potentially practical set of ideas at once both principled and effective found in the work of Max Weber and Alfred Schutz addressed to the issue of ‘adequacy’ as a goal in social research. Efforts to achieve adequacy beyond the epistemological conditions required by Weber’s demand that evidence meet both causal adequacy and adequacy on the level of meaning were significantly refocused by Schutz’s later concern, responding specifically to Weber, that the social sciences also address themselves to his postulate of adequacy. It states that “Each term used in a scientific system referring to human action must be so constructed that a human act performed within the life-world by an individual actor in the way indicated by the typical construction would be reasonable and understandable for the actor himself, as well as for his fellow men”. A serious attempt to implement a more expansive notion of adequacy by practically activating this postulate in the ways suggested can be beneficial not only for the social research situation but in everyday life as well.

这篇文章提供了证据来支持在 Max Weber 和 Alfred Schutz 将“充分性”问题作为社会研究目标的工作中发现的一组有前途的概念性和潜在实用的想法，这些想法既具有原则性又有效。超越韦伯要求证据满足因果充分性和意义水平充分性所要求的认识论条件的努力，被舒茨后来的关注显着重新聚焦，特别是对韦伯的回应，即社会科学也致力于他的充分性假设. 它指出：“科学系统中使用的每个涉及人类行为的术语都必须如此构建，使得个体行为者在生活世界中以典型构建所指示的方式进行的人类行为对于行为者本人来说是合理和可以理解的。 ，以及他的同胞”。通过以建议的方式实际激活这一假设，认真尝试实施更广泛的充分性概念，不仅对社会研究情况有益，而且对日常生活也有益。