Modernizing Sociological Identity: A Theoretical Exploration
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Efendiev A.G., Kozhanov A.A. (2024) Modernizing Sociological Identity: A Theoretical Exploration. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology), 27(2): 7–37 (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2024.27.2.1 EDN: DPJYDK
Abstract
The crisis, fragmentation and "letdown" of modern Sociology are analyzed with the main goal — to outline a strategy for overcoming the crisis of the internal development of modern Sociology as a Science, as a Profession and as a Vocation. It is very important to establish methodological monism to restore the Sociological Identity within the complete system of Sociological Knowledge. The main epistemological tools for creating the unified system of Sociology are based on the assertion of the principle of complementarity, overcoming the fragmentation of scientific isolationism and even mutual hostility of sociological paradigms are considered. Staying on this principle, the new theoretical and empirical wholistic strategies for the basic concepts in Sociology can be formulated: the Social, Social Institutions, Social Structures that maintain harmonious Unity and Interaction in the Social Life, symbolic-objective, structural-functional actor-independent conditions, rules, and symbolic-subjective as manifestation of phenomenological-constructive activity, everyday life experience of Social Actor.
Keywords:
crisis in sociology, multi-paradigms in sociology, structural-functional approach, phenomenological approach, postmodernist approach, concept of agency in sociology, principle of complementarity, system of sociological knowledge, social, symbolic-objective, symbolic-subjective
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Popper K. (2004) Predpolozheniya i oproverzheniya. Rost nauchnogo znaniya [Conjectures and Refutations. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]. Moscow: AST; Yermak.
Radayev V.V. (2013) Rossiyskaya sotsiologiya v poiskakh svoyey identichnosti [Russian Sociology in Search of its Identity]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 7: 3–17 (in Russian).
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Yadov V.A. (2003) Vozmozhnost' sovmeshcheniya teoreticheskikh podkhodov [Possibility of Combining Theoretical Approaches]. Sotsiologicheskiy zhurnal [Sociological Journal], 3: 5–19 (in Russian).
Alexander J.C. (1982) Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Vol. I: Positivism, Presuppositions, and Current Controversies. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Berger J., Zelditch M. (1993) Theoretical research programs: Studies in the growth of theory. Stanford University Press.
Bowden B. (2019) Empiricism, epistemology and modern postmodernism: a critique. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 14(4): 481–497.
Camic Ch., Gross N. (1998) Contemporary Developments in Sociological Theory: Current Projects and Conditions of Possibility. Annual Review of Sociology, 24(1): 453–476.
DiMaggio P. (1998) The New Institutionalisms: Avenues of Collaboration. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 154(4): 696–705.
House J.S. (2019) The culminating crisis of American sociology and its role in social science and public policy: an autobiographical, multimethod, reflexive perspective. Annual Review of Sociology, 45: 1–26.
Ingram P., Clay K. (2000) The choice-within-constraints new institutionalism and implications for sociology. Annual Review of Sociology, 26: 525–546.
Levine D. (1986) The Forms and Functions of Social Knowledge. In: Fiske D., Shweder R. (eds.) Metatheory in Social Science. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press: 271–283.
Levine D. (1995) Visions of the Sociological Tradition. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press.
Levine D. (2018) Dialogical Social Theory. New York: Routledge.
Matthewman S., Hoey D. (2006) What happened to postmodernism? Sociology, 40(3): 529-547.
Nielsen K. (2001) Institutionalist approaches in the social sciences: typology, dialogue, and future challenges. Journal of Economic Issues, 35(2): 505–516.
Pleasants N. (1997) The Post-positivist Dispute in Social Studies of Science and Its Bearing on Social Theory. Theory, Culture, and Society, 14: 143–156/
Ritzer G. (1975) Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science. The American Sociologist, 10(3): 156–167.
Ritzer G. (1991) Metatheorizing in Sociology. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Wagner, D.G. (1984) The Growth of Sociological Theories. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Zammito J. (2004) Nice Derangement of Epistemes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Berger P., Luckmann T. (1995) Sotsial'noye konstruirovaniye real'nosti [Social Construction of Reality]. Moscow: Medium (in Russian).
Bourdieu P. (1993) Simvolicheskoye prostranstvo i simvolicheskaya vlast' [Symbolic Space and Symbolic Power]. Thesis, 1(2): 137–150 (in Russian).
Vayze P. (1993) Homo Economics i Homo Sotsiologicus: monstry sotsial'nykh nauk [Homo Economics and Homo Sociologicus: Monsters of the Social Sciences]. Thesis, 1(3): 115–130 (in Russian).
Gofman A.B. (2013) O modakh v sovremennoy teoreticheskoy sotsiologii [About Fashions in Modern Theoretical Sociology]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 10: 21–28 (in Russian).
Devyatko I.F. (1996) Modeli obyasneniya i logika sotsiologicheskogo issledovaniya [Models of Explanation and Logic of Sociological Research]. Moscow: Institut sotsiologii RAN (in Russian).
Durkheim E. (2021) Pravila sotsiologicheskogo metoda [Rules of Sociological Method]. Moscow: AST (in Russian).
Zarubina N.N. (2012) Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskaya problematika v teoriyakh postmodernistskogo tipa [Socio-Economic Issues in Postmodern Theories]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 11: 9–19 (in Russian).
Intervyu s professorom Thomasom Luckmannom [Interview with Professor Thomas Luckmann] (2002) Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii [The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology], 5(4): 5–14 (in Russian).
Kozhanov A.A. (2015a) Vzaimnoye prevrashcheniye obydennogo i nauchnogo v istorii sozdaniya novoy sotsiologii nauki v 1970–1980-kh gg.: model' sovmeshcheniya sotsial'nogo i ratsional'nogo obyasneniy [Mutual transformation of the Ordinary and the Scientific in the history of the Creation of a New Sociology of Science in the 1970–80s: a Model of Combining Social and Rational Explanations]. Devyatko I.F., Abramov R.N., Katernyy I.V. (eds.) Obydennoye i nauchnoye znaniye ob obshchestve: vzaimovliyaniya i rekonfiguratsii [Ordinary and Scientific Knowledge about Society: Mutual Influences and Reconfigurations]. Moscow: Progress-Traditsiya: 310–324 (in Russian).
Kozhanov A.A. (2015b) Metodologiya teoreticheskikh issledovatel'skikh programm: sravnitel'nyye preimushchestva dlya analiza dinamiki nauchnogo znaniya [Methodology of Theoretical Research Programs: Comparative Advantages for Analyzing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge]. Sotsiologiya: metodologiya, metody, matematicheskoye modelirovaniye [Sociology: Methodology, Methods, Mathematical Modeling (Sociology: 4M)], 40: 114–140 (in Russian).
Collins R. (1994) Sotsiologiya: nauka ili antinauka? [Sociology: Science or Anti-Science] THESIS, 4: 71–96 (in Russian).
Lakatos I. (1995) Fal'sifikatsiya i metodologiya nauchno-issledovatel'skikh program [Falsification and Methodology of Research Programs]. Moscow: Medium (in Russian).
Latour B. (2014) Peresborka sotsial'nogo. Vvedeniye v aktorno-setevuyu teoriyu [Reassembling the Social. Introduction to Actor-Network Theory]. Moscow: Izd. dom Vysshey shkoly ekonomiki, 2014 (in Russian).
Malinkin A.N. (2006) Paradigmal'nyy podkhod v kontekste intellektual'noy situatsii v Rossii [A Paradigmatic Approach in the Context of the Intellectual Situation in Russia]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 1: 114–123 (in Russian).
Merton R. (2006) Sotsial'naya teoriya i sotsial'naya struktura [Social Theory and Social Structure]. Moscow: AST; Khranitel (in Russian).
Mnatsakanyan M.O. (2016) Postmodernizm i sudba sotsiologii [Postmodernism and the Fate of Sociology]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 9: 134–140 (in Russian).
Toshchenko Zh.T. (ed.) (2013) Novyye idei v sotsiologii: monografiya [New Ideas in Sociology: Monograph]. Moscow: Yunity-Dana (in Russian).
Popper K. (2004) Predpolozheniya i oproverzheniya. Rost nauchnogo znaniya [Conjectures and Refutations. The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]. Moscow: AST; Yermak.
Radayev V.V. (2013) Rossiyskaya sotsiologiya v poiskakh svoyey identichnosti [Russian Sociology in Search of its Identity]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 7: 3–17 (in Russian).
Romanovskiy N.V. (2016) Diskurs krizisa (v) sovremennoy sotsiologii [Discourse of Crisis (in/of) Modern sociology]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 4: 3–12 (in Russian).
Shcholkin A.G. (2017) Postmodernizm v sotsiologii. O nenavyazchivykh posledstviyakh odnoy sotsiologicheskoy mody [Postmodernism in Sociology. On the Unobtrusive Consequences of One Sociological Fashion]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 2: 120–130 (in Russian).
Efendiyev A.G. (2021) Sotsial'noye razvitiye v sovremennuyu epokhu. Teoreticheskoye issledovaniye novoy real'nosti [Social Development in the Modern Era. Theoretical study of the New Reality]. Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya [Sociological Research], 47(1): 16–27 (in Russian).
Yadov V.A. (2003) Vozmozhnost' sovmeshcheniya teoreticheskikh podkhodov [Possibility of Combining Theoretical Approaches]. Sotsiologicheskiy zhurnal [Sociological Journal], 3: 5–19 (in Russian).
Alexander J.C. (1982) Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Vol. I: Positivism, Presuppositions, and Current Controversies. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
Berger J., Zelditch M. (1993) Theoretical research programs: Studies in the growth of theory. Stanford University Press.
Bowden B. (2019) Empiricism, epistemology and modern postmodernism: a critique. Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, 14(4): 481–497.
Camic Ch., Gross N. (1998) Contemporary Developments in Sociological Theory: Current Projects and Conditions of Possibility. Annual Review of Sociology, 24(1): 453–476.
DiMaggio P. (1998) The New Institutionalisms: Avenues of Collaboration. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 154(4): 696–705.
House J.S. (2019) The culminating crisis of American sociology and its role in social science and public policy: an autobiographical, multimethod, reflexive perspective. Annual Review of Sociology, 45: 1–26.
Ingram P., Clay K. (2000) The choice-within-constraints new institutionalism and implications for sociology. Annual Review of Sociology, 26: 525–546.
Levine D. (1986) The Forms and Functions of Social Knowledge. In: Fiske D., Shweder R. (eds.) Metatheory in Social Science. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press: 271–283.
Levine D. (1995) Visions of the Sociological Tradition. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press.
Levine D. (2018) Dialogical Social Theory. New York: Routledge.
Matthewman S., Hoey D. (2006) What happened to postmodernism? Sociology, 40(3): 529-547.
Nielsen K. (2001) Institutionalist approaches in the social sciences: typology, dialogue, and future challenges. Journal of Economic Issues, 35(2): 505–516.
Pleasants N. (1997) The Post-positivist Dispute in Social Studies of Science and Its Bearing on Social Theory. Theory, Culture, and Society, 14: 143–156/
Ritzer G. (1975) Sociology: A Multiple Paradigm Science. The American Sociologist, 10(3): 156–167.
Ritzer G. (1991) Metatheorizing in Sociology. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Wagner, D.G. (1984) The Growth of Sociological Theories. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Zammito J. (2004) Nice Derangement of Epistemes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Received: 26.04.2022
Accepted: 09.06.2024
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Efendiev, A.G. and Kozhanov, A.A. 2024. Modernizing Sociological Identity: A Theoretical Exploration. Zhurnal sotsiologii i sotsialnoy antropologii (The Journal of Sociology and Social Anthropology). 27, 2 (Jun. 2024), 7–37. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31119/jssa.2024.27.2.1.
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