SCIENCE, VALUES AND POLITICS IN THE CLASSICAL THEORISTS IN SOCIOLOGY

Abstract

What is the relationship of science with politics, on the one hand, and science with morals or values, on the other? Is theoretical thinking independent of the political thought of an author? Is a neutral social science possible? Is the search for objectivity in sociology lawful? Can science tell us what to do or how to organize? In the intellectual production of the three classical theorists in sociology we find dissimilar answers to these questions. This article compares the views on these problems, starting with the weberian consideration, and then comparing it with Durkheim and Marx.