“Objectivity” in Social Science and Social Policy

Abstract

The Archiv first appeared at a time in which certain practical aspects of the "labor problem" stood in the forefront of social science discussions. By a social science problem, a task for a discipline is the object to throw light on the ramifications of that fundamental social-economic phenomenon: the scarcity of means. 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." The distinctive characteristic of a problem of social policy is indeed the fact that it cannot be resolved merely on the basis of purely technical considerations which assume already settled ends. Like the science of social-economics since Marx and Roscher, the journal is concerned not only with economic phenomena but also with those which are "economically relevant" and "economically conditioned.".

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