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For romantics the aim of the social sciences understood as investigations of culture is “interpretative understanding” of “human action”, by which is meant explanation of social interactions in terms of subjective mental states – ideas and motives, views and values – that are culturally shared by members of social groups.

This concept of the aim of science and of explanation is called a “foundational agenda”, because it requires reduction of the social sciences to a social-psychology foundation, i.e., description of observed social behavior by reference to subjective social-psychological mental states.