Sociology and Philosophy.

On the strained relationship between philosophy and sociology

The main contention of this article is the following: sociology, like all the modern sciences, was born out of philosophy. But, ungratefully enough and perhaps because of a deepseated inferiority complex vis-à-vis the older well established sciences, sociology tends to forget or at least to blurr its philosophical foundation. Thus it turns out to be “social engineering”. The sociologist becomes...

SOCIOLOGY IN A N ERA OF FRAGMENTATION : From the Sociology of Knowledge to the Philosophy of Science , and Back Again

In this article we revisit Alvin Gouldner’s The Corning Crisis o,f Wvstern Sociology ( I 970). I n part, this article is an attempt to apply Gouldner’s own lessons about the sociology of knowledge to his own work, situating it with respcct to the dominant epistemological unconscious of late 1960s American sociology as well as thc broader historical context of a still-vibrant Fordist inode of so...

Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas: The Sociology and Philosophy of Law During Crises of the State

2 A Perspective from Philosophy and Sociology of Law: Agreement and Relational Justice

Relationships between empirical and philosophical approaches to the law have not been always peaceful. Agreement seems the most natural way to build up and implementing regulations and justice within human-machine interfaces (natural and artificial societies), and might help to bridge the gap between both theoretical approaches. Recent researches on relational law, relational justice, crowdsour...

Perspectives On Mathematical Practices - Bringing Together Philosophy of Mathematics, Sociology of Mathematics, and Mathematics Education

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