Weber_&_Dahrendorf

Weber & Dahrendorf Max Weber and Ralf Dahrendorf Contemporary and classical theorists Max Weber and Social Science Max Weber thought that statements of fact are one thing, statements of value another, and any confusing of the two is impermissible, Ralf Dahrendorf writes in his essay Max Weber and Modern Social Science as he acknowledges that Weber clarified the difference between pronouncements of fact and of value (Dahrendorf). Although Dahrendorf goes on to note the ambiguities in Weber's writings between factual analysis and value-influenced pronouncements, he stops short of offering an explanation for them other than to say that Weber, being human, could not always live with his own demands for objectivity. Indeed, Dahrendorf leaves unclear exactly what Weber's view of objectivity was. More specifically, Dahrendorf does not venture to lay out a detailed explanation of whether Weber believed that the social scientist could eliminate the influence of values from the analysis of facts. Did Weber believe that, even though facts are one thing and values another, social and economic facts could be evaluated without the analysis being influenced by values' And what is the relation of objectivity to values' Could objectivity, for instance, be used to show that one value is weber, values, social, value, weber's, political, analysis, perspective, objectivity, objective, one, scientist, science, established, portis, facts, been, view, economic, believed, ultimate, own, end, value-free, once, standpoint, must, interpretation, another, particular, out, matter, lassman, given, even