The critique of sociological reason

Abstract

The author presents Sociology as a critical science of reality, as well as a permanent institutionalized control of social relations with a critical intention and in a scientific manner, combining the theoretical and the practical reason. As a science of reciprocity, Sociology is tasked with questioning ideologized visions of the world (Weltanschauungen) like the absoluticized economic reason in economism. It is a primarily analytical science and, as commonly understood, with responsibilities to society – therefore Sociology combines critique and doubt to design new conceptual possibilities and new options for social action to open new horizons, based on perceptions. But it is also a discipline made by those that have to apply to themselves the same criticism used by analyzing realities. [Editors abstract]