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Article: The problem with sociology: morality, anti-biology and perspectivism.(Universities)
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- Quadrant
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- October 1, 2005
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SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY amiss with sociology. It is more than a century and a half since the most influential modern variants of sociology began to be formulated, starting with Marx's Communist Manifesto. Sociology came into universities about a hundred years ago, and for at least the last fifty years it has been well represented in universities across the Western world. Despite this time, sociologists have produced little disciplinary knowledge; they agree on almost nothing, not even on the nature and extent of their disagreements. Sociology is a mess. Yet few sociologists, at least in their more public pronouncements, acknowledge this, preferring instead to present their ...
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