value judgment controversy
Sign in to saveThe value judgment controversy (German: Werturteilsstreit) is a Methodenstreit, a quarrel in German sociology and economics, around the question whether the social sciences are a normative obligatory statement in politics and its measures applied in political actions, and whether their measures can be justified scientifically.
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The value judgment controversy (German: Werturteilsstreit) is a Methodenstreit, a quarrel in German sociology and economics, around the question whether the social sciences are a normative obligatory statement in politics and its measures applied in political actions, and whether their measures can be justified scientifically.
The internecine quarrel took place in the years before World War I, between the members of the Verein für Socialpolitik; the primary antagonists were Max Weber, Werner Sombart, and Gustav Schmoller.
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