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

3 The price for this freedom is complete resignation in his re lation to society: He has no influence on the use to which science is put. The social scientist, on the other hand, has started as a pro ducer of ideologies, either apologetic or utopian, or reformist. Only comparatively recently has he started to offer techniques, like the scientist, hut in contrast to the latter's techniques, they are inextricably mixed up with social aims and political issues. The political powers which the scientist has (to a large extent) shut out from the intimacy of his work shop since Galilei, are ever present in the social scientist's study. As a result, the social scientist finds it difficult to sell his '’products'*, like the scientist, and wash his hands after wards. Rather, he has to sell himself as a whole: That means, the very contents of his work are difficult to separate from social and political issues. This, however, has to be qualified. There are signs that also social or economic techniques lend themselves to use by dif ferent powers and for different aims (this is true, for example, of full employment techniques) so that the contrast described above reduces to a difference of degrees and is per haps connected with the different stages of development of the two fields of knowledge. In practice, however, the difference is very great, so that the above picture of the contrast in the position of scientist and social scientist is not exag gerated.

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