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2021, Academia Letters
The term “science” represents a claim to universality, but modern social science is based on lessons from European historical experience. Why, then, does it claim to have universal application? We suggest that Weber’s dictum that social science should be value free led to the concealment of Eurocentric values within an apparently objective framework governed by “rationality”.
2007 •
Only a few writers have attempted to construct a comprehensive philosophy of social science, and of these weber is the most relevant to the present. the structure of his conception places him in a close relationship to donald davidson. the basic reasoning of davidson on action explanation, anomalous monism, and the impossibility of a 'serious science'of psychology is paralleled in weber.
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Cosmopolitanism without Commensurability: Why Incommensurable Values are Worthless2019 •
Max Weber’s issues about ‘value neutrality’ in social sciences (1917) and about political professionalism (1919) concern Wertungen in the form of Wertungsstandpunkte: what people evaluate in practice by standing for or against it, or standing aside to allow or at least tolerate it. This is where contested issues about ‘incommensurable’ basic ‘valuations’ arise. Weber’s examination of „Wertungen“ or enacted valuations belongs to normative sociology, as an empirical study of normative phenomena – human actions, whether individual or collective – and to the methodology of social sciences. Weber (1917) is forthright about what empirical social sciences can(not) provide regarding which courses of action are (in)advisable, whether individual, collective or institutional, including political. He argues cogently that the scope and competence of social sciences are insufficient for policy deliberations, though they are necessary to such deliberations, and they can and ought to provide bases for responsible political engagement by social scientists who are also responsible members of society, typically holding the rights and obligations of voting and petition. Weber (1919) rightly advocates a political ethic of professional responsibility, because a politician’s prognosis of likely risks and success is often limited, all the more so in fraught circumstances. In both connections, Weber expects continuing struggle and strife between proponents of competing evaluative standpoints. His diagnosis of such struggles appears bleak, perhaps also voluntarist. Weber studies a constellation of issues regarding facts and values, theory and practice, and propositions, attitudes, judgments and commitments. Unstated yet fundamental to his reflections are issues about what Aristotle called the practical syllogism and about the scope and limits of rational justification, best identified by Kant’s Critical philosophy. I use both to disambiguate some central features of Weber’s analysis, in ways which circumscribe the domain of legitimate policy debate and which distinguish between issues involved in specifying permissible, feasible and optimal policies and those involved in exercising judgment and executing our actions responsibly. My analysis greatly bolsters the case for some basic universal principles and criteria of responsible and justifiable judgments, actions and policies, in theory and in practice. One corollary is that Weber’s own assessment of these issues does not at all abet Carl Schmitt’s self-serving ‘decisionism’, not without exploiting at least two further, portentous blunders.
This essay considers the following questions: Is social science really a science? What is society? Does scientific knowledge accord with objective reality? It also discusses the work of Max Weber on the origins of modern capitalism.
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The Contribution of European Social Science2009 •
Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance, v. 5 n. 2
Origins of Western Social Science2009 •
This paper argues that Social Science in the West emerged after bloody and violent religious battles convinced Europeans that religion was not a good basis on which to structure society. Then they sought to create economic, social and political systems on a secular basis, without any reference to religious principles. In a secular society, it was necessary to allow maximum freedom to all possible sects, and so freedom became a cherished value. This freedom was translated into all realms of human action, and resulted in principles contrary to both Christian and Islamic ethics. Thus rejection of religion is built into certain fundamental principles widely accepted in modern social science. This is built into the framework, and not recognized as such by Muslim scholars. Therefore, there is a great need of caution and care when we seek to adapt Western scholarship in social sciences for use in Islamic societies.
One of the most outstanding intellectual achievements in the history of classical thought in social sciences which have remained influential up until today are undoubtedly associated with the name of Max Weber. Through a detailed text analysis and a conceptual mapping of the logic of the argumentation, this paper sets out to offer a profound insight into the classical German sociologist's approach to science, both "early" (about 1903/4) and "late" (post-1913), in terms of some fundamental matters of epistemology and methodology. The first part of this paper investigates social economics in terms of its theoretical and methodological foundations and applicability, while the second part looks at interpretive sociology from the same perspectives, with an emphasis on the differences between the two approaches. We argue that Weber's dualist methodological attitude became explicit and dominant in his later writings. In addition, as he brought in focus the theory of social action, he not only became an explicit proponent of methodological individualism, but he also revisited and specified the logic and role of "causal explanation" and "interpretation". Interpretive sociology no longer seeks a causal explanation for individual historical events by applying nomological knowledge, but instead commits itself to finding "causally adequate" explanation for the course and consequences of different types of social actions. Interpretation, in turn, no longer means an analysis of effects concerning the cultural significance of individual historical events in a special sense, but an interpretive understanding of various types of social actions, rational or "irrational", directly or in a motivation-like manner. The paper concludes with a summary designed to highlight key legacies of Weber's oeuvre that have remained valid and valuable for any analytical and empirical research in sociology.
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