SOC 201 Chapter 4: Chapter 4.3
Document Summary
As far as weber was concerned, it was the sociologist"s duty to deal with inconvenient facts. Indeed, weber argued that one of the best things a sociology teacher could do. Is to teach his students to recognize inconvenient facts i mean facts that are inconvenient for their party [that is, political] opinions. And for every party opinion there are facts that are extremely inconvenient, for my own opinion no less than for others. I believe the teacher accomplishes more than a mere intellectual task if he compels his audience to accustom itself to the existence of such facts. Here are some empirical facts that have upset some beginning sociology students; in the weberian sense, these are examples of inconvenient facts. Keep in mind that each of these facts about life in the united states has been validated by a great deal of research.
