By Peter Hedström, Björn Wittrock
The thirty seventh international Congress of the IIS considering idea and examine on the vanguard of sociology and the connection among sociology and its neighbouring disciplines. This quantity constitutes a sustained attempt through favourite sociologists and different social scientists to evaluate the present status of sociology. it's a stocktaking of the original nature of sociology within the gentle of advances in the self-discipline itself and inside of a number of neighbouring disciplines. many of the chapters define institutional innovations for sociology within the new millennium. Others hint scholarly advances and suggest formidable learn programmes drawing on fresh advancements not just inside of conventional neighbouring disciplines reminiscent of background, political technological know-how, and economics, but in addition in the cognitive, cultural and mathematical sciences.
Contributors include: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Raymond Boudon, Richard Breen, Christofer R. Edling, S. N. Eisenstadt, Jack Goldstone, Philip Gorski, Peter Gärdenfors, Ulf Hannerz, Peter Hedström, Hans Joas, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Jens Rydgren, Neil Smelser, Aage B. Sørensen, Richard Swedberg, Piotr Sztompka, Peter Wagner and Björn Wittrock.
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In order to overcome both extreme positions one must unravel some basic, deeper-lying assumptions that they both share. Only by identifying and then rejecting such assumptions shall we be able to formulate a third approach, more adequate than the other two (for the explication and various applications of this strategy see: Sztompka 1979). There are several common assumptions of both traditional approaches. First, and most importantly, they take for granted the radical dichotomy of facts and values, categorical statements and value judgments, so strongly advocated by positivist, neo-positivist and all other “scientistic” models of science.
Sociological Syllogism Thus we come to the strongest, primary assumption shared by traditional approaches, namely that values do not follow from any facts (research results), nor any facts follow from values. This is a strict dichotomy of facts and values fundamental for positivist view of science.
Only by identifying and then rejecting such assumptions shall we be able to formulate a third approach, more adequate than the other two (for the explication and various applications of this strategy see: Sztompka 1979). There are several common assumptions of both traditional approaches. First, and most importantly, they take for granted the radical dichotomy of facts and values, categorical statements and value judgments, so strongly advocated by positivist, neo-positivist and all other “scientistic” models of science.