O kompetencjach krytycznych w socjologii i w polu artystycznym
On critical abilities in sociology and in the arts

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the relations between the “scientific field” and “field of art” in the context of theory of reputation, that is – the prestige and social recognition of scientific and culture texts created within both respective fields. The author argues that scholarly texts (sociological papers among them), due to their esoteric language and high level of abstraction, require high and specialized theoretical and methodological qualifications, thus rendering such texts unintelligible to an average reader. Paradoxically, this fosters the reputation of such texts (and social role of a sociologist) as transcending “average” qualifications of the wide audience, which in turn facilitates the creation of social recognition of science and trust for scholarly institutions. The process of popularisation of scholarly knowledge and its simplification, in turn, sheds its aura of “inaccessibility” and brings it into mass-media and everyday discourse. The process of relativisation of qualifications of authors–critics–the audience is presented in the context of popular art (cinema), where it is far more advanced than in the “science field”.

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