TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract What is the relationship between the descriptive and the normative? The usual answer, in the social sciences, is based on a sharp distinction between facts and values. This chapter reprises and radicalizes long-standing critiques of the fact/value distinction, proposes an alternative theory of ontic webs in its stead, and then uses it to delineate six different forms of public sociology. It argues that facts are value-laden and values fact-laden; that facts and values are entangled in webs of belief and practice; and that attributions of causation and moral responsibility are connected via ontological assumptions. Effective public sociology therefore requires a combination of ontological extension and moral translation.
VL  - 36
SN  - 978-1-78973-949-7, 978-1-78973-950-3/0198-8719
DO  - 10.1108/S0198-871920190000036008
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0198-871920190000036008
AU  - Gorski Philip S.
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Ontic Webs: A New Framework for Public Sociology
T2  - Religion, Humility, and Democracy in a Divided America
T3  - Political Power and Social Theory
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 151
EP  - 168
Y2  - 2024/09/22
ER  -