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Distinguish between fact and value in Weber’s Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Max Weber, values cannot be logically derived from facts. Science can establish what is and why, but never what ought to be. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904–05) is his working demonstration of this principle: values legitimately select the problem, but they must not decide the answer.

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  • Where values enter and where facts rule
  • How Weber keeps them apart
  • The one evaluative moment
  • Critiques
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