value-freedom
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thumb|Max Weber, the creator of this concept
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thumb|Max Weber, the creator of this concept
Value-freedom is a methodological position that the sociologist Max Weber offered that aimed for the researcher to become aware of their own values during their scientific work, to reduce as much as possible the biases that their own value-judgements could cause.
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