Max Weber
Introduction
WHEN A SOCIAL SCIENCE journal which also at times concerns itself with a social policy, appears for the first time or passes into the hands of a new editorial board, it is customary to ask about its "line." We, too, must seek to answer this question and following up the remarks in our "Preface," we will enter into the question in a more fundamental theoretical way. Even though or perhaps because, we are concerned with "self-evident truths," this occasion provides the opportunity to cast some light on the nature of the "social sciences" as we understand them, in such a manner that it can be useful, if not to the specialist, then to the reader who is more remote from actual scientific work.
In addition to the extension of our knowledge of the "social conditions of all countries," i.e., the facts of social life, the express purpose of the Archiv ever since its establishment has been the education of judgment about practical social problems--and in the very modest way......
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