Социологията като Просвещение
Sociology as Enlightenment

Summary/Abstract: Max Weber saw the true purpose of sociology not in the progress of knowledge as such, but in its significance for the self-understanding of the actors in the social-historical world. Thus, the greatest possible accuracy and reliability of sociological knowledge was exceptionally important for him. Through his interpretative sociology, as the stable core of social and cultural studies, Weber wanted to go beyond the simple postulate and to demonstrate how such a requirement can be met. His almost obsessive insistence on value-free judgments refers to what is no less than the condition sine qua non of strict empirical knowledge and of a practice that is true to reality, e.g., to that which is at stake in any serious Enlightenment. This view has motivated me to participate in many debates on whether, and to what extent, sociology really corresponds to its vocation for Enlightenment.

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