The Social Prophet: Brief Reflection on a Common SENSE or Spontaneous Sociology

This study reflects the way sociologists present their approaches or opinions in the media and social media, such as television, radio, newspapers, and other digital platforms and/or editorial sources. Sociologists today, in their analyzes seek a lot of evidence of common sense, simply changing language to be understood by those less gifted in the matter, there are those who say behind the scenes that sociology is a science of common sense, others still that sociologists do not demonstrate the sociology of knowledge or science in its approaches.

We sociologists today are tempted to seek inadequate and somewhat prophetic analyzes using common sense notions and without sociological principles to present the appropriate comments. There are others whose approach does not convey the so-called sociology of knowledge or science, as purely scientific means.

Sociologists have fallen into the fashion of presenting speech to social communication in order to make considerations and not propose possible objective and purely scientific sociological solutions, thus imposing in their comments the most famous sociological imagination of Mills and the social reflexivity of Anthony Giddens and many other authors of greater contemporary sociological relevance.

Timid comments, in many cases with little scientific discovery, little epistemological inclination and search for empirical data, taught us to follow a simple research script, judging sociology to be a banal science without aesthetics and scientific progress. After all, what does a sociologist do? Radio listeners and viewers ask? Does he only speak on programs and only criticize the State? After all, what does the sociologist produce as science? And what is your scientific profession? Reflecting on these questions and many others will lead us to ask ourselves about the relevance of sociological thought today, in the 21st century.