Kruh sociologické racionality: pozice sociologa v hermeneutické perspektivě

• Authors: Martin Ďurďovič

Title variants

EN

The Circle of Sociological Rationality: The Position of the Sociologist from a Hermeneutical Perspective

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the article is to apply the concept of the hermeneutical circle to the position of a sociologist. The hermeneutical problem in sociology is exemplified by research into social action that examines how sociological understanding captures meanings attributed to the action by the actors themselves. Although several distinguished theorists have already introduced the idea of hermeneutics into sociology, none of them pursued the topic of the hermeneutical circle in detail. This article applies the hermeneutical circle to sociology through the concepts of ‘pre-understanding’ and the ‘fusion of horizons’. The analysis results in the acknowledgement of epistemological pluralism in sociology and leads to the conclusion that the justification of truth in sociology cannot be simply a matter of correspondence-based verification, but must involve a form of decision-making about true knowledge within an intersubjective sociological rationality.

Keywords

EN

hermeneutics; social action; rationality; epistemology; sociological theory

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-49
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Martin Ďurďovič

• Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.13060/00380288.2017.53.1.301