Abstract: There has been a series of dualisms in modern social science research: theoryexperience, quantitativequalitative, and subjectiveobjective. A reexamination of Max Weber’s social science methodology will shed new light on the understanding of these dichotomies. Moving forward and back between empirical materials and constructive concepts, Weber tried to transcend the opposition between the objective and the subjective in historical and cultural science by examining historical individuals and coining the concept of “ideal type” which implied values and value interpretation. In his works, subjectively constructed conceptions can express objective historical experience and social practices and illuminate various institutions, mentality and structure of organizations. As a result, these conceptions can associate with researchers’value concerns of his time. By using social scientific method to method to understand different value ideals of people from various nations and ages, we can see how peoples in history uphold and practice them and guide peoples in our time to inherit and realize these values. By combining the conception and experience, past and present, Weber tried to defuse the tension between rational and irrational, subjective and objective, facts and values in modern society. From Max Weber’s view of social science, history and social science are disciplines which use rational approach to culture scholars’sober intelligence and make people see value beliefs beyond rationalization. Actually, social science can help modern people uphold values and avoid the dilemma of deadly abstract rational theories and fanatic irrational experience.

Key words: value freedom , value interpretation , value relation , ethical personality