Objectivity is sociology’s most effective reconciliation technique

Evidence

Within the realm of sociological techniques, there is nothing that serves the reconciliation of conflicting parties so effectively as does objectivity, that is, the attempt at limiting all complaints and requests to their objective contents. Philosophically speaking, the conflict is reduced to the objective spirit of each partial standpoint, so that the personalities involved appear as the mere vehicles of objective conditions. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 4261

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Empirical sociology’s operational methodology is itself ideological — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 447