Metatheory and the Sociology of Sociology

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 531-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Sociology

Idea of Research-Writing in Sociology: Polemics on the Loss of a Transformative Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802292097030
Author(s):  
Dev Nath Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Research ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Relevant Question ◽  
Analytical Reasoning ◽  
Transformative Practice ◽  
Sociology Of Sociology ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training

Following Alwin Gouldner (1971), it is pertinent to perpetually ask a seemingly all-time relevant question. And the question is, what do sociologists do? In the manner of doing sociology of sociology, and by a polemical resurrection of fragments from the dominant practices of sociologists, this essay brings forth general understanding about the idea of research-writing in contemporary India. It underlines the anomalies in the practice of research-writing, connected with the teaching and training programmes, in a self-referential perspective. The essay substantiates the polemics with analytical reasoning, in order to reveal as to what could be reasons behind this state of sociological research-writings.

scholarly journals An Introduction to the Sociology of Sociology

1965 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-59,108
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Uga
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Sociology

A Sociology of Sociology. Robert W. Friedrichs

1972 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-429
Author(s):  
Andrew McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Sociology

scholarly journals For a Relational Critical Discourse Analysis

Stan Rzeczy ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 302-328
Author(s):  
Tomasz Zarycki
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Critical Sociology ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Sociology Of Sociology ◽  
Institutional Positioning

This paper proposes a relational and critical sociological perspective on discourse analysis, in particular on so-called “Critical Discourse Analysis” (CDA). The main argument of this paper is that CDA has not yet been able to turn its critical perspective towards its own field. Meanwhile, neither CDA nor other schools of discourse analysis can still pretend not to be integral parts of the system legitimizing social hierarchies in modern societies. The paper argues that discourse analysis can be seen as highly dependent on power relations, both because of its institutional positioning and because of its restricted reflexivity. A call for the development of a critical sociology of discourse analysis based on a relational approach is therefore presented. Its draft programme is largely based on inspiration from the sociology of knowledge, in particular from “the sociology of sociology” of Pierre Bourdieu.

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