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The objectivity essay discusses essential concepts of Weber's sociology: "ideal type," "(social) action," "empathic understanding," "imaginary experiment," "value-free analysis," and "objectivity of sociological understanding". With his objectivity essay, Weber pursued two goals.
In this way, Weber developed a distinction between "value-judgement" and "link to the values". The "link to the values" describes the action of analysis of the researcher who, by respecting the principle of the value-freedom, makes of cultural values several facts to analyse without venturing a prescriptive judgement on them, i. e. without ...
The area shows growing interest, given a number of books [8] and a degree of institutionalization as a potential subfield shown by the first issue of the academic journal Valuation Studies [9] in 2013, [10] while existing journals in cultural sociology and economic sociology, like Poetics and Socio-Economic Review, show a strong treatment of ...
The book consists of multiple parts: an attack on “objective,” “value-free” social science, a sociology of the history of sociology and a critique of Talcott Parsons, culminating in his own proposal for a new sociology.
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This category relates to the wider terms and concepts for the social world and society, for specifically sociological terms and concepts see Sociological terminology Wikimedia Commons has media related to Social concepts .
The concept of value, like the concept of prices, is often used in a rather "loose" sense – referring to a cost or expense, a compensation, a yield or return, the valuation of a product, an asset, a service, a lease etc. The language of trade often does not make the social, legal and economic relations involved in trade very explicit.