BADANIE TEGO, CO SPOŁECZNE. PROBLEM STATUSU NAUKOWEGO SOCJOLOGII
THINKING WHAT IS SOCIAL. PROBLEM OF SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF SOCIOLOGY

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I present selected perspectives on defining science on the background of sociology. This is the basis for discussion about what science is, or what it should be, and how, therefore, in this background should be understood scientificity of sociology. I go here from normative - functional conception of science, where the model of it is natural science. Then I present sociologically, culturally and linguistically-oriented approaches that criticize positivistic view of science, highlighting social consequences of the entanglement of scientific practice. To speak about what is sociology and what is its status as a science requires findings of what is the subject of sociological thought and research. So that requires a response to the question: what is the social? Only the answer to this question leads us to reflect on the way of research methods of the social, or to reflect on what kind of science is sociology.

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