Methodenstreitn.
/mɛˈtəʊdənˌstrʌɪt/, U.S. /məˈtoʊdənˌstraɪt/ Originally: the debate in the German-speaking academic world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries about the scientific status and methodology of economics, and subsequently of sociology and related disciplines (now historical). Now also: any debate, dispute, or controversy about the methodology of a field of study.
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1893 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 1 236 Few intellectual battles have been fought with more vigor and with a more equal mustering of ability in the rival camps than has the famous Methodenstreit.
1925 Amer. Econ. Rev. 15 1 We might find the makings of new ‘Methodenstreit’.
1934 Econometrica 2 443 No Methodenstreit is likely to develop, since both schools are hard-minded enough to recognize the shortcomings and merits of both modes.
1958 Spectator 7 Feb. 173/2 In history, since the Methodenstreit of sixty years ago, the flood of ‘scientific’ research [etc.].
1968 Explor. Entrepreneurial Hist. 6 75 I would like to narrow my comments on this twentieth-century Methodenstreit to three questions.
1970 Computers & Humanities 5 2 A literature of criticism is just beginning to emerge, but it has not yet created the type of Methodenstreit that has apparently debilitated scholarship in economic history.
1994 Amer. Hist. Rev. 99 1344 Even for those not much interested in Lamprecht, the Methodenstreit, or even historiography, this work gives valuable insights.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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