Sociology is a value - free science - Explain it.
Sociology
is human behavior in society. All social behavior is guided by values. Thus the
study of social behavior can never be value-free if value freedom is
interpreted in the sense of absence of values because values of the society
under investigation form a part of the social facts to be studied by sociology.
Moreover social research is in itself a type of social behavior and is guided
by the value of search for true knowledge. Then what is meant as clarified by
Max Weber value-free sociology means that the sociologist while carrying social
research must confine called value relevance. Thus the values can operate at
three levels:
(i)
At the level of philological interpretation.
(ii)
At
the level of ethical interpretation in assigning value to an object of enquiry.
(iii)
At
the level of rational interpretation in which the sociologists seeks the
meaningful relationship between phenomena in terms of causal analysis. The
point of value interpretation is to establish the value towards which an
activity is directed.
Sociologists
should observe value neutrality while conducting social research. It means that
he should exclude ideological or non scientific assumption from research. He
should not make evaluative judgment about empirical evidence. Value judgment
should be restricted to sociologist’s area of technical competence. He should
make his own values open and clear and refrain from advocating particular
values. Value neutrality enables the social scientists to fulfill the basic
value of scientific enquiry that is search for true knowledge.
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