Value commitment and intervention in a disordered world

Name: Value commitment and intervention in a disordered world
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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Articolo

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STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA

Fascicolo

STUDI DI SOCIOLOGIA - 2016 - 1

Titolo

Value commitment and intervention in a disordered world

Autore

Sam Whimster

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

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05-2016

Issn

0039-291X (stampa) | 1827-7896 (digitale)

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How disordered a world do we live in today? What is the role for social sciences in our changing world? Comparing Weber’s times and our own reveals many similarities pointing to transformational issues. Thanks to the deep contextual Weberian scholarship carried out since the 1980s, it is now possible to see the depth of Weber’s engagement with his own times. Value freedom in the context of the science of reality is re-considered and some suggestions put forward on how to reconcile the engaged Weber with the Weber of formal sociology and academic value freedom. Weber was an interventionist in his own time; and ours, undergoing its own catastrophes, requires the same Weberian commitment to nomological knowledge and the expression of reasoned outcomes at the level of both values and empirical reality.