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Write short note : Value – free sociology

  • UPSC 1996
  • Sociology as a Science

Max Weber formulated value-free sociology (Wertfreiheit) as the discipline's regulative ideal: once a topic of study has been chosen — a choice itself shaped by the researcher's value-relevance, or Wertbeziehung — the actual conduct of research and the findings it produces should not be contaminated by the researcher's personal moral or political preferences.

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  • Gouldner's Critique — The "Myth" of Value-Free Sociology
  • C. Wright Mills's Parallel Critique — Evasion of Civic Responsibility

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