# Weber co-edits the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik

Date: 1904

## The fact

In 1904 [Max Weber](/people/max-weber) became a co-editor of the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik with Edgar Jaffé and Werner Sombart, turning a journal into his main public after illness. Objectivity and value-judgment fights were staged here. A journal is not a party.

## Context

German social science lacked a single disciplinary home. The Archiv was a coalition object. Jaffé’s money and Sombart’s fame shared the masthead. Sharing does not erase Weber’s editor role. The Verein für Sozialpolitik remained a separate association. Do not treat later AJS or Kölner Zeitschrift as this 1904 masthead.

Shared responsibility is part of Weber co-edits the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik. Naming Max Weber does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1904-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

MWG at https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/ locates the Archiv essays in the critical edition. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Weber-German-sociologist independently notes the Archiv as his forum after 1903.

Official or archival record: Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe — Mohr Siebeck (https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/; Mohr Siebeck / MWG).

## Significance

Cohesion path among scholars, modest weight. High confidence on the 1904 editorship.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Weber co-edited the Archiv from 1904. Not established: that the journal uniquely created German sociology as a faculty. Contribution is recorded as He joined Edgar Jaffé and Werner Sombart as editor. The journal was a shared public. Complex. The impact note is A co-edited social-science journal is a cohesion instrument for a reading public, modest weight. The dated heading stays Weber co-edits the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik on 1904-01-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Editorship is not the Protestant Ethic instalment as a second Fact. Mixed effects of Weber co-edits the Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik are separate paths.

The attached driver is [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Max Weber: https://factrail.ai/people/max-weber

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Weber-German-sociologist
- https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/buch/max-weber-gesamtausgabe-mwg-alle-baende-9783161595219/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/weber-archiv-1904