On Interdisciplinarity in Sociology in Light of the Problematic Status of its Disciplinary Identity

Abstract

The article discusses the problems of interdisciplinary interactions in Russian sociology. The author sees the main problem of sociology and, respectively, of interdisciplinary interactions within it in the fact that there is no consensus on the disciplinary identity of sociology in the professional community of sociologists. It serves as a sort of roof for interdisciplinary interactions and each type of interdisciplinary synthesis, including the controversial ones, while its own disciplinary interests are often not recognized or even ignored. The author points to the likely causes of the current state of affairs. As one way of changing it, he offers a critical analysis of sociological knowledge from the standpoint of the sociology of knowledge.