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Metamorphoses of Sociology: What Can We Expect of It and Do about It? Part 2
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Sociology is a relatively recent science whose end may be near. Born in modernity, it may be a victim of its deconstruction, to which it has contributed. In this time of mutations, we wonder: is sociology living a crisis and, if so, what does the near future hold in store for it? To answer these questions, we plunge into perplexities: but what is sociology? What can it know? What is it good for? What should it do? Or rather, what can we expect of it and do about it ?!
In this session we wish to reflect on the crisis of sociology in the face of a general crisis of our time. It is necessary to debate it from researchers’ perspectives from different countries and regions. What interpretations are there about the crisis, and what outlets are being proposed? It is important to reflect on the history of sociology from its diverse culture and theoretical perspectives; to articulate its history with the present, connecting the crisis of sociology with that of society and universities; and to reconstruct the experiences of classical sociology with disciplinary connections and theoretical and empirical plurality. In order to reflect critically on the limits of deconstructivist approaches - which are too attached to the discourse, thus reinforcing the current fragmentation process of reality and disconnection from its complexity -, we want to think about the possible metamorphoses that allow sociology not only to understand but also to respond to the challenges of the present time.