Study On Marx's View Of Social Science

Marx was a Politician, philosopher, economist, revolutionary theorist whose social scientific concept of creation is closely related to the times of his life. Hegelian dialectics, Feuerbach's materialist theory, the French utopian socialist ideas, Ricardo, Smith and other's classical political economic theory, the three found in the natural sciences as well as revolutionary practices he was engaged in his whole life were all play important part for his concept of the social sciences. Marx's view of social science is based on the concept of historical materialism which is a combination of Hegel's dialectics and Feuerbach's materialism. Practice is the core concept of historical materialism and its logical starting point is not a concept and abstract objects but realistic and practical activities of people engaged in practices. Historical development is not the result of chance. It has its law which can be observed just like the nature.Political economy is the concrete application of Marx's historical materialism. Professor Gerard Delanty believed that Marx's view of social science belong to the"third branch tradition"of social sciences. Based on Marx's Critique of Political Economy, compared it with positivism and hermeneutics, we are trying to grasp the ideas of Marx's views of social sciences from the contradictions to social changes. According to the analysis of Marx's Critique of Political Economy, we believe that Marx's view of social science has the feature of both Realism and Constructivism. Marx's view of social science is an integrated science, or even that it might be"a science"which includes natural science. The fundamentals of social Science have the feature of history. There are three features of Marx's view of social science. First, dialectical thinking, not only in Marx's political economy research methods, but also reflected in the relationship between science and its object, theory relations and practice, Second, critical position, Marx's critique of social science is not for the purpose of self-understanding, but of the existing social criticism, Third, Emancipatory substance, Marx's critique of the social sciences dialectically linked with the liberation, Which is the liberation of the practice. Marx's view of social science against the value-neutral and thus has a strong political overtones. Finally, the paper describes the academic significance of Marx's view of social science (for example, in the Western countries), which has promoted the production of many academic schools and new branches of western Social Science.