Max Weber and the Problems of Value-free Social Science: A Critical Examination of the Werturteilsstreit

· Bucknell University Press
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190
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This book examines the Werturteilsstreit (value-judgment dispute), an ongoing controversy stimulated by Weber's demand for value-freedom in the social sciences. Ciaffa argues that the Werturteilsstreit should be understood as two logically distinct disputes -- a methodological dispute about the influence of shifting sociocultural values on the social sciences and a practical dispute about whether the social sciences can validate judgments concerning the desirability of social institutions and policies.

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