TY - JOUR
T1 - Sociology’s inescapable past
AU - Lukes, Steven
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (Project: E26 TEC). The authors are pleased to aknowledge the helpful assistance of H. Lutten-berger and S. Jocham.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Why does sociology teaching uniquely require study of its classics? The answer, it is suggested, lies in the indeterminacy of the idea of what is social—what constitutes and exemplifies it, at different levels of abstraction, about which the classical sociologists diverge, as do their continuing legacies. Synthesis aiming at disciplinary-wide consensus is not, therefore, a promising path. Selective perception, it is further suggested, deepens insight.
AB - Why does sociology teaching uniquely require study of its classics? The answer, it is suggested, lies in the indeterminacy of the idea of what is social—what constitutes and exemplifies it, at different levels of abstraction, about which the classical sociologists diverge, as do their continuing legacies. Synthesis aiming at disciplinary-wide consensus is not, therefore, a promising path. Selective perception, it is further suggested, deepens insight.
KW - Abstract
KW - classic
KW - metaphor
KW - selective perception
KW - social
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U2 - 10.1177/1468795X211024368
DO - 10.1177/1468795X211024368
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108784196
SN - 1468-795X
VL - 21
SP - 283
EP - 288
JO - Journal of Classical Sociology
JF - Journal of Classical Sociology
IS - 3-4
ER -