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SOCIOLOGY OF THE END OF SOCIOLOGY. ON BRUNO LATOUR'S THEORETICAL CONCEPT (Socjologia konca socjologii. O koncepcji teoretycznej Bruno Latoura)

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Gdula M.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2009
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vol. 53
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issue 1
3-15
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The article presents the main theoretical ideas developed by Bruno Latour. The method of presentation consists in following the stories told by Latour which allow the author to better grasp the theory which otherwise resists demonstration. Latour redefines the very subject of sociology and transforms the notions used in the description and explanation of social processes. The article presents the paradoxes involved in this theoretical project.
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THE SOCIOLOGICAL DISCOVERY OF EMOTIONS

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Jasinska-Kania A.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2006
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vol. 50
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issue 1-2
41-53
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This article presents achievements resulting from the unexpectedly dynamic development of the sociology of emotions since the 1970s. It recalls traditions of studying emotions from the classics of sociology and discusses why those traditions were forgotten for several decades. Sources of the recent rise of sociological interest in emotions are sought on the one hand in processes of social change at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, and on the other in mechanisms of change in sociology as an academic discipline, including interdisciplinary cooperation. Reflections on the nature of emotions and the relationship between emotions and rationality suggest that adopted definitions depend on researchers' orientations and theoretical assumptions. Sociological theories of emotion, based on different orientations of contemporary social thought, are characterized by diversity and eclecticism. Evolutionary theories of emotions refer to contemporary sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. Cultural approaches investigate historical and cultural differences in interpreting emotions. Structural theories focus on emotions tied to the relationship between power and social status. The sociological discovery of emotions not only deepens our understanding of emotions; it also enriches our knowledge about social structures and transformations. Key words / słowa kluczowe
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HOMO SOCIOLOGICUS: CO SE SKRÝVÁ ZA TÉMATEM SOCIÁLNÍCH ROLÍ

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Šubrt J.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2017
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vol. 49
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issue 2
203 – 230
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This study is focused on the topic of social roles and concepts associated with it. It concerns the thematic and paradigmatic contexts in which the concept of social roles appeared and what perspectives it has opened in sociology. Special attention is paid to Dahrendorf´s book Homo Sociologicus, to the questions raised by this work, and how answers to them have been sought. The study goes on to explain how during the 70's and 80's the interest of sociologists moved from the topic of roles to the issue of social actors. In conclusion it considers why today it could be helpful to go back to the concept of social roles and how lines of reasoning on this issue could be promising and beneficial for the further development of sociological theory.
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REFLECTIONS ON THE CONTEMPORARY SLOVAK SOCIOLOGY. TRADITIONAL AND UNIVERSAL ISSUES (K reflexii sucasnej slovenskej sociologie: tradicne a univerzalne temy)

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Laiferova E.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2009
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vol. 41
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issue 1
39-51
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The development of sociology in Slovakia underwent several changes similar to other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Sociologists are continuously confronted with many institutional barriers and mental stereotypes in their work. The authoress emphasizes some traditions and innovations in Slovak sociology, concerning its research areas and professional orientations. This article is aimed to discover which are contemporary discussion fields and possibilities to articulate opinions and knowledge of the Slovak sociologists. Critical function of sociology and its ambivalent aspects are underlined as a very important component of the scientific and public activities of sociologists.
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SOCIOLOGY AS A SCIENCE - THE PROBLEM REVISITED: 'WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT SCIENCE'

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Iwinska K.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2006
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issue 1(180)
61-87
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Nowadays, science is generally regarded as domain treated with respect, approval and trust. Scientists and researchers try to confirm their results by showing the criteria considered as 'scientia'.This article aims to present briefly how sociologists manage with their discipline which obviously is somewhere in-between science and humanities. The authoress quotes the famous statement of Paul Feyerabend, who discussed the methodological issues with Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn and Imre Lakatos. She confines herself to the minimum detail of metatheory in order to present one theoretical paradigm, focusing on presentation of Jeffrey Alexander's work, who combines different ideas about sociology. Her aim is to revive the idea of 'classical' positivism to check, in what way it still exists in sociological ideas. The changes in case of theory and empirical studies are taken into account. She presents sociological debates and lack of consensus as far as 'sociology as science' is concerned. The idealistic view, that these debates sometimes become conclusive, is presented. The authoress takes postpositivistic ideology of Alexander, since it occurs to have been the only way to link two kinds of doing science. It shows the consensus between the so called humanistic tradition and 'neopositivistic view' in sociology.
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INTERPRETATIVNÍ SOCIOLOGIE ZVÍŘAT? K MOŽNOSTEM POJETÍ ZVÍŘAT JAKO SOCIÁLNÍCH AKTÉRŮ Z POHLEDU ROZUMĚJÍCÍ SOCIOLOGIE MAXE WEBERA

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Janák D.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2022
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vol. 54
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issue 5
412 – 436
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The study explores the question whether and under what conditions the fundamental concepts of Max Weber's interpretive sociology - in particular "meaning" (Sinn) and "understanding" (Verstehen) - can be applied to animal behaviour, and whether and under what conditions Weber's concepts can be used to study the relationship of humans to animals as a relationship of social actors to other social actors. With regard to the possibility of building an interpretive sociology of animals in Max Weber’s spirit, his shift in the analytical concept of "meaning" is very important, namely the shift from the meaning which is fully conscious to the half-consciousness or unconsciousness of the meaning which is felt by the actor. Since the understanding of the animal and the human action is achieved in principle by the same means – through qualitative evidence and its verification by the rate of practical success - the rejection of the meaningfulness of animal action could also be applied to human actors. Apparently, denying the human actors an understanding explanation of their actions through the interpretation of subjective meaning would not only "destroy" the legitimacy of the interpretive sociology, but it would also "rule out" the possibility of understanding human communicative acts as such. Therefore, it is reasonably of greater benefit to include animals among (potential) social actors and rather focus on their sociologically relevant differences from other - primarily human - social actors.
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Nenaplněný příslib sociologické teorie: vzestup a pád americké sociologie ve druhé polovině dvacátého století

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Balon J.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 5
943-968
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This article traces the development of American sociology in the second half of the twentieth century in relation to the project to advance the shared disciplinary foundations. The author reconsiders the prominent role of sociological theory in this process and devotes special attention to current criticism of any project designed to found sociology on a unified theory. Between 1945 and 1970, a period often described retrospectively as the 'Golden Age' of sociology, scientists heralded the coming of the era of sociological thinking, a view supported by the unprecedented institutional expansion of the field. However, enthusiasm over the potential growth of the field was in the ensuing period replaced with an escalating sense of dissatisfaction with the absence or unsatisfactory nature of the general vision of development. The idea of unified sociological theory was attacked and the field became more and more contested, fragmented, and compartmentalised. The article analyses the disintegrating impact that the inability to push through the promised programme of unification of the field had. The account of the development of American sociology is tied in with an argument about the conditions for sociological theory today.
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Lze najít pojítko mezi vysvětlením a porozuměním?

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Archer M. S.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 1
7-22
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The problem of linking 'explanation' and 'understanding' remains unresolved - as Weber left it. This paper challenges the view that their reconciliation is impossible, as some theorists have maintained. Their case is that the entities involved - subjective meanings and objective relationships - are too ontologically different to be combined. From the stratified ontology of Social Realism, which acknowledges that different properties and powers pertain to different components and levels of social reality, this is no barrier in principle to their combination. However, in practice Realists have not given an adequate account of how 'subjectivity' and 'objectivity' are linked, which also weakens Realism's solution to the 'problem of structure and agency'. This paper offers a refinement: the human power of reflexivity is viewed as mediating between our subjective concerns and our objective social contexts. Reflexive deliberations account for what agents actually do - and they do not all do the same thing - under very similar social circumstances. The introduction of reflexivity enables the (socially) objective and the (personally) subjective to be combined into a single account of socially structured and structuring action.
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O potrzebie refleksji ontologicznej – teoria społeczna Pawła Rybickiego

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Sztalt K.
Roczniki Nauk Społecznych
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2011
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vol. 3(39)
89-101
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The author presents Paweł Rybicki's original ideas regarding basic social issues, concentrating on ontological problems. He presents Rybicki’s holistic - unique, yet not fully appreciated – theory in polish sociology. Theory which refer primarily to Aristotle and also to concept of prominent humanistic sociology person-ages like Weber, Znaniecki, Merton etc.
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EPISTEMOLOGIE A DĚLENÍ KVANTITATIVNÍ A KVALITATIVNÍ SOCIOLOGIE

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Ďurďovič M.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2014
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vol. 46
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issue 4
351 – 372
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The article summarizes the evolution of modern epistemology and relates it to sociology. It has two goals: 1) to pursue the way the formation of naturalistic and hermeneutic stream of epistemology resonates in the division of sociology into quantitative and qualitative; 2) to show consequences of the recent epistemological debate for this division of sociology. The concept of hermeneutical circle is used in the article to highlight that the knowledge of any social scientist is conditioned personally, historically and inter-subjectively. This can foster the respect towards the plurality of explanation and understanding processes. On the other hand, explanation and understanding are not to be put against each other. They represent two interdependent treats of human thinking.
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MERTON A LAZARSFELD: SPOLUPRÁCE SOCIOLOGICKÉ TEORIE S EMPIRICKÝM VÝZKUMEM

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Jeřábek H.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2012
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vol. 44
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issue 1
62 – 82
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This article represents an excursion into the history of sociology and into the history of empirical sociological research. It looks at four outcomes of collaboration between Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton. All of them draw on a combination of empirical research and sociological theory, and all of them were of significance for the cooperation between Merton and Lazarsfeld. First, they developed a pair of methodological tools: the programme analyser and the focused interview, and they created a functional model for the combined use of these two devices in research. Next, they co-edited a monograph titled Continuities in Social Research, in which they presented the results of the ‘American Soldier’ study and explained its contribution to the development of sociological theory and research methodology. Merton was a theorist and Lazarsfeld an empirically oriented scientist and the fruits of this kind of collaboration are apparent in their joint article ‘Friendship as a Social Process’. The fourth example of their cooperation occurred with their efforts to assert Lazarsfeld’s idea for a centre for advanced training in social research that would focus on research training. The complementary roles that Lazarsfeld and Merton played are illuminated further by the memoirs of these two scholars, which reflect on their collaborative research work.
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FORMALIZATION OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES: NECESSITY AND POSSIBILITIES OF APPLICATION (Formalizatsiia sotsiolohichnykh teorii: neobkhidnist ta mozhlyvosti zastosuvannia)

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Telychko T.
Sotsiolohiia: teoriia, metody, marketyng (Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing)
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2010
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issue 3
154-172
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The article presents the need for formalization of sociological theories. Formalization is needed to test sociological theories, that is to define if theories fit data of researches, and, respectively, if theories describe or explain social reality well. Theory is considered as a set of concepts (that may be empirically measured) and relations between the concepts that in total describe or explain certain part of social reality; theory is represented as causal model which consists of a set of interrelated hypotheses. Formalization is regarded as the translation of verbal statement of the theory to the language of mathematical formulae. Difficulties and limitations of formalization of sociological theories are considered. Some technical aspects of formalization are specified due to use of quantitative data in verification process. General guidelines for formalization of sociological theories and rules of formalization of separate theoretical statements are inferred on the basis of works of researhers of theory formalization (H.Blalock, J.Gibbs, H.Zetterberg). Three cases of formalization of sociological theories and stages of formalization within each of these cases of formalization are suggested. These three cases are: a) formalization of sociological theories from verbal theories of sociologist(s) by researcher (group of researchers); b) formalization of theoretical assumptions of researcher when conducting sociological research; c) (re)formalization of theories that was made by other researchers in the past aimed to adapt to specific data.
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SOCIOLOGY OF INDIVIDUALS AND CRITICAL THEORY. THE LISBON 2009 SOCIOLOGICAL CONFERENCE ON RECENT DEBATES IN THEORETICAL SOCIOLOGY (Socjologia jednostek i teoria krytyczna. Konferencja lizbonska o aktualnych debatach w socjologii teoretycznej)

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Mucha J.
Studia Humanistyczne AGH
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2010
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vol. 8
9-24
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This is an exercise in the fi eld of a sociology of sociology. It draws upon the debate on 'sociological theory we need' at the beginning of the 21st century, which was held at the Lisbon 2009 Conference of the European Sociological Association (semi-plenary session). The invited speakers presented two cases of the 'theory we need': 'sociology of individuals' and 'critical theory'. The author analyses theoretical discussions held at recent big (European and 'global') sociological congresses and comes to the conclusion that the Lisbon 2009 diagnosis of what is really important in sociological theorizing was wrong. Similarly, in Polish textbooks and readers in the fi eld of sociological theory, these two subdisciplines do not seem to be very signifi cant. The detailed discussion of the proposed in Lisbon 'sociology of individuals' and 'critical theory' follows. In concluding chapter of the article, the author analysis what and why is considered in recent Poland, at the beginning of the 21st century, a 'sociology of individuals' and critical sociology' of the post-communist transformation.
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Dialog mezi hluchými“? K problematice vztahu sociologie a historie

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Subrt J.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 5
969-989
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The article discusses the relationship between sociology and history in three steps. The first part compares the opinions of researchers who believe that the dividing line between sociology and history should be transcended (Giddens, Abrams) and those who fundamentally disagree with this view (Goldthorpe). The second part looks back in time to show the reciprocal ties between history and sociology as they gradually grew apart and then drew closer again, leading to the emergence of historical (comparative) sociology. The third part deals with the subject of social change, which is viewed as a key problem in historical sociology, and is also seen as an area of research where sociology and history should join forces to address social issues.
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Jak sociologie přichází o společnost

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Keller J.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2008
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vol. 44
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issue 5
989-1007
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The article analyses the development and the current situation in sociology in relation to the transformations that contemporary society is going through. The author explores some basic sociological questions in an examination of the character of institutions and forms of social stratification, showing how deeply these questions are connected with the character of 'organised modernity'. He analyses the transformations of society since the 1970s and studies the concepts connected with the increase in insecurity and the decline in trust within society. In this context he analyses the concepts of social capital, networks, and trust. He shows that these concepts are incapable of establishing a link between the actors and the system as a whole. A sociology that dismisses society from the sets of strategies of individual action only contributes to the general trend of privatising the public sphere for the benefit of private interests.
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POČÁTKY TEORETICKÉ SOCIOLOGIE V ČESKÝCH ZEMÍCH. TEXT VĚNOVANÝ PAMÁTCE PROF. M. PETRUSKA

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Janák D.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2013
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vol. 45
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issue 4
339 – 364
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The text discusses the following questions about the origins of sociological theory in the Czech lands: When was it established? Who, where and how participated in the process of its development? Czech sociological theory is divided into general sociological theory, meta-theory, concrete sociological theory and sociological journalism. The most important for current development in sociological theory is the general sociological theory which receives most attention. Czech sociological functionalism is compared with general functionalism (especially with T. Parsons´ theory). The classical sociological theory is considered in relation to contemporary developments in Czech sociology. With regard to the elaboration of general sociological theory, Brno played a more important part than Prague. The 1930s are identified as a period of its full constitution. I. A. Bláha, J. L. Fischer and E. Chalupný were the main figures in the field. The tension between positivism and anti-positivism is a characteristic feature of the Czech classical sociological theory, together with its ethical dimension which is a common feature of Czech thought in general.
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PARALLEL WORLDS OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

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Alijevova D.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2006
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vol. 38
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issue 5
367-398
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The article is devoted to the co-existence of such different contemporary sociological approaches as the post-modern social theory and the mainstream sociology, represented by functionalism. Their thematic and conceptual differences are so significant that the metaphor of the 'parallel worlds' of the sociological theory seems to be adequate to describe the present situation. The analysis focuses on the late works of J. Baudrillard as the most important representative of the post-modern social theory. Baudrillard declares that the social theory is dead because the key social factors like class and ethnic differences have disappeared with the creation of an undifferentiated mass. This declaration leads Baudrillard towards creating a new way of sociologizing and a new sociological vocabulary, which sharply contrasts with the concepts of the mainstream sociology. The masses for him are a non-social category - a 'silent majority', a 'black hole' that absorbs all social characteristics of the system. It is their fatal strategies that are so crucial for the fate of the social world. The similar position in this respect is typical for another eminent French post-modern theorist M. Maffesoli. For him, the masses have lost their political and economical characteristics - they are not anymore the subject of the world history. Naturally, such 'antisocial theory' make the post-modern sociology unacceptable for the most mainstream sociologists in their research and theorizing. They live in their own sociological universe that had been created during the long sociological tradition. The core conception of mainstream sociology is represented by structural-functionalism, which has been recently revived in the works of neo-functionalists (J. Alexander, P. Colomy, S. N. Eisenstadt, F. Lechner, R. Munch). The functionalism survives not only in the sociological theory but also in the 'practical sociological reasoning'. It presents the sociological theory that is parallel to the post-modern social theory. The third parallel structure in the contemporary sociology is presented by the Marxist social theory. It has also survived in the works of the eminent modern (A. Giddens, P. Bourdieu) and post-modern (J. Baudrillard, M. Maffesoli, F. Jameson) sociologists. An outstanding example of the 'latent Marxism' in the recent years is the conception of the informational society by M. Castells. In comparison with the functionalism that embodies the consensual thinking, the Marxism presents a conflict-oriented critical position which makes it a popular ideology in contemporary globalizing world.
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