Sociologies (Jan 2012)
La sociologie et son (dés)engagement disciplinaire : un regard est-européen
Abstract
The ailing of contemporary Sociology is thought of through the sociological experience of Central and East European Countries in three areas of the practice of the discipline, which are research, education and the public sphere. Recently integrated in the international and interdisciplinary space of research, their sociological practices reveal new cleavages in the discipline such as the priority given to European problems over the concerns of national societies, the predominance of the requirements of applicability and cost effective knowledge regarding the scientific verification of results, and the primacy of bureaucratic procedures in scientific debates on investigations. Without being put into analysis, these imbalances might transform themselves in the disengagement of the discipline with regard to the production process, and the validation of sociological knowledge. It is therefore urgent to rethink the epistemological posture of sociology in order to cultivate its sensitivity and capacity to overcome its own limits, defects, and malfunctions.
