Antinaturalism is a view in sociology and other disciplines which states that the natural world and the social world are different. The ideas first developed in the field of history in the works of Wilhelm Dilthey and Heinrich Rickert and it was applied to sociology by Max Weber.
Antinaturalism posits a dichotomy between the natural world and the social world, an idea that originated in historical thought with Wilhelm Dilthey and Heinrich Rickert, and was later applied to sociology by Max Weber.