A dialectical social science can rest on a transcendentally posited frame of reference.
Evidence
This new type of science was spared some central difficulties of empirical-analytic social science. For example, it need not be at a loss if there was no way of isolating meansend relationships and using them as a model for the explanation of human behaviour. On the contrary, means might prove to be value-laden, and ends might prove to be ambiguous and only comprehensible within a larger social context. If this were so, this different type of social science could not be dismissed on the grounds that it was not value-free. Instead, an attempt might be made to ground the dialectical type of social science in an alternative, `transcendentally posited frame of reference’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 601
Categorization
- DEFINE: Names and characterizes the ‘dialectical type of social science’ and its transcendental frame of reference — a key Habermasian conceptual distinction.
- XREF: connects to: Dialectics sought a critique of science that absorbs metaphysics’ corrections without rejecting science — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 198; Sociology’s fragmentation stems from Enlightenment faith in transcendental rationality — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 14; Consistent social theory requires an object with the potential for rational realization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 592
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dialectics sought a critique of science that absorbs metaphysics’ corrections without rejecting science — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 198; Sociology’s fragmentation stems from Enlightenment faith in transcendental rationality — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 14; Consistent social theory requires an object with the potential for rational realization — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 592
Broader Connections
- Sociology’s fragmentation stems from Enlightenment faith in transcendental rationality
#complicates(0.78) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 14