The Werturteilsstreit describes a Methodenstreit

Methodenstreit

Methodenstreit is a German term referring to an intellectual controversy or debate over epistemology, research methodology, or the way in which academic inquiry is framed or pursued...

, a quarrel in German sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 and economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 around the question, whether or not the social sciences

Social sciences

Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

 is a normative obligatory statement in politics and its measures applied in political actions, and whether or not their measures can be justified scientifically.

The quarrel took place in the years before WWI, between the members of the Verein für Socialpolitik

Verein für Socialpolitik

The Verein für Socialpolitik is an important society of economists in the German-speaking area. The Society, which covers all branches of economics was founded in 1873. Among its members were eminent economists like Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner.It annually awards the Gossen Prize to...

. Main opponents were Max Weber

Max Weber

Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself...

, Werner Sombart

Werner Sombart

Werner Sombart was a German economist and sociologist, the head of the “Youngest Historical School” and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century....

 and Gustav Schmoller.

The Zweiter Werturteilsstreit is the debate between the supporter of the Kritische Theorie and the Kritischer Rationalismus

Critical rationalism

Critical rationalism is an epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper. Popper wrote about critical rationalism in his works, The Open Society and its Enemies Volume 2, and Conjectures and Refutations.- Criticism, not support :...

 during the 1960s - better known as Positivismusstreit

Positivism dispute

Positivismusstreit is the German word for debate about positivism and refers to a well known philosophical dispute between Critical rationalism and the Frankfurt School in 1961, about the methodology of the social sciences...

.

Literature

• Hans Albert
  Hans Albert
  Hans Albert is a German philosopher. Born in Cologne, he lives in Heidelberg.His fields of research are Social Sciences and General Studies of Methods. He is a critical rationalist, giving special attention to rational heuristics...
  
   & Ernst Topitsch (editor) - Werturteilsstreit -, Darmstadt 1971
• Äußerungen zur Werturteilsdiskussion im Ausschuß des Vereins für Socialpolitik. - printed as manuscript 1913.
• John Dewey
  John Dewey
  John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey was an important early developer of the philosophy of pragmatism and one of the founders of functional psychology...
  
   - Logik. Die Theorie der Forschung -, 1986 (Published in German 2002 as "Sozialforschung")
• Christian von Ferber - Der Werturteilsstreit 1909-1959. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Interpretation. - In: Ernst Topitsch (editor) - Logik der Sozialwissenschaften. - , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln, 8. Auflage 1972, ISBN 3-462-00405-0 or ISBN 3-462-00406-9
• Dirk Kaesler
  Dirk Kaesler
  Dirk Kaesler is a German sociologist and Max Weber expert. Now retired, he was formerly Professor of Sociology at the University of Marburg. He is the author of Max Weber: An Introduction to his Life and Work, first published by the University of Chicago Press in 1988.-References:...
  
   - Einführung in das Studium Max Webers -, München 1979
• Dieter Lindenlaub - Richtungskämpfe im Verein für Socialpolitik. Wissenschaft und Sozialpolitik im Kaiserreich vornehmlich vom Beginn des “Neuen Kurses“ bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges (1890–1914) -, part I + II., Wiesbaden 1967 (Beihefte zur Vierteljahresschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Nr. 52/53)
• Jürgen Mittelstraß
  Jürgen Mittelstraß
  Jürgen Mittelstraß is a German philosopher especially interested in the philosophy of science.He was born in Düsseldorf in 1936 and studied philosophy, history and protestant theology at Bonn, Erlangen, Hamburg and Oxford from 1956 till 1961.He received his Ph.D...
  
   - Werturteilsstreit -, in: Enzyklopädie: Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie, 1996
• Wolfgang Schluchter - Wertfreiheit und Verantwortungsethik -, Tübingen 1971
• Gustav von Schmoller
  Gustav von Schmoller
  Gustav von Schmoller was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics.-Life:Schmoller was born in Heilbronn. His father was a Württemberg civil servant. Young Schmoller studied Staatswissenschaften at the University of Tübingen...
  
   - Die Volkswirtschaft, die Volkswirtschaftslehre und ihre Methode, 1893 (Frankfurt am Main 1949)
• Verhandlungen des Vereins für Socialpolitik in Wien, 1909 -, Leipzig 1910. (Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Band 132)
• Max Weber
  Max Weber
  Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research, and the discipline of sociology itself...
  
   & Johannes F. Winckelmann (editor) - Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre -, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-16-845373-0