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The impossibility of sociology as a science: arguments from within the discipline
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SYSNO ASEP 0508708 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title The impossibility of sociology as a science: arguments from within the discipline Author(s) Balon, Jan (FLU-F) ORCID, RID, SAI
Holmwood, John (FLU-F) ORCID, RID, SAISource Title Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. - : Wiley - ISSN 0021-8308
Roč. 49, č. 3 (2019), s. 334-347Number of pages 14 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords ideology ; interpretive understanding ; positivism ; scientific sociology ; social criticism Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology Method of publishing Open access Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 UT WOS 000483671300005 EID SCOPUS 85064645726 DOI 10.1111/jtsb.12208 Annotation This paper addresses a key moment in the development of sociology when its status as a science was criticised from within by ethnomethodologists (Harvey Sacks and Harold Garfinkel), post-Althusserian Marxists (Barry Hindess) and Michel Foucault. These criticisms seemed to come from different sides, but they converged in arguing their positions from the point of view of a proper conception of science through which mainstream sociology was found wanting. Neither secured its own position and each had a similar legacy of a form of interpretivism hostile both to scientific sociology and its critical project. The paper situates this moment and its legacy where both correspondence and coherence criteria for sociological knowledge claims come to be undermined. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2020 Electronic address https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jtsb.12208
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