Notes on Social Science Policy

Steindl, Josef

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Document type:: Works

Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: Notes on Social Science Policy

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 14 Blätter, handschriftliche Notiz auf der Rückseite von Blatt 11

Year of publication:: ohne Datum

Language:: English

Description:: Development of knowledge, social sciences, alienation, moral responsibility for scientific creation, integrated science policy.

Note:: Unveröffentlichtes Typoskript.

Topic:: Economic history,economic theory,current developments

JEL Classification:: A12 [Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines] A13 [Relation of Economics to Social Values]

Shelfmark:: S/M.44.4

Access:: Free access

Notes on Social Science Policy The Backwardness of Social Science There is a general feeling that the development of knowledge has proceeded unevenly in different fields: quickest in re lation to '’dead" nature, much slower in relation to living nature, and very slow indeed in relation to man and society. This is the basic contrast of science (in the following always used for "natural science") and the social sciences. The development of techniques has been correspondly uneven: We have gone a long way in the "conquest" or "mastery" of nature, but we have not bothered about mastery over the forces which grow in society, in man and between men. This is pro bably a hang over from the original situation of man: His helplessness in face of a threatening nature. The struggle against nature corresponds to old drives - to ensure survival and protection against enemies, and to procreate and spread the species over the globe. In the service of these drives, com parable to primeval deities, we have created the machine and with it industrial captalism; on the machine is built, by necessity, a hierarchical organisation of growing complexity, uncontrollable dynamics, non-transparence, irrationality, which has created its own aims and subjected the human lives to them.

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