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Examine Max Weber’s method of maintaining objectivity in social research.

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  • Sociological Thinkers

Max Weber rejected both positivism and pure intuitionism. In "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy" (1904) and "Science as a Vocation" (lecture 1917, published 1919), he proposed a middle path. Objectivity does not mean a mind without values; it means procedures that make value-guided inquiry checkable by anyone.

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