Social Sciences, Sociology – the Day Before Yesterday, Today, the Day After Tomorrow, and Their (Yugoslav, Slovenian) Social Context Cover Image

Družbene vede, sociologija – predvčerajšnjim, danes, pojutrišnjem – in njihov (Jugoslovanski, Slovenski) družbeni kontekst deset fragmentov in pomembni viri
Social Sciences, Sociology – the Day Before Yesterday, Today, the Day After Tomorrow, and Their (Yugoslav, Slovenian) Social Context

Author(s): Niko Toš
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Social development, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Slovensko sociološko društvo (in FDV)
Keywords: social sciences; sociology; institutionalisation trajectories; dogmatic influences;

Summary/Abstract: In the essay, the author describes how sociology as a teaching and research-based social science discipline emerged and developed in Slovenia (and Yugoslavia). He shows its initial dogmatic narrowness and gradual development as it became an empirically grounded scientific-cognitive activity. He does this by outlining the transition from the original subject of teaching (at law faculties) in the early 1960s to the conception of study programmes of sociology (department chairs at philosophy faculties, mainly in Belgrade, Ljubljana and Zagreb) and research programmes (the establishing of institutes for social sciences and sociology). The author reveals all the contradictions in the relationship between the ruling politics and sociology, as expressed in the transition from a relationship of opening up, supporting, tolerating and preventing, to a dogmatic blocking of its cognitive activity, autonomous research and bringing critical insights into the public domain.

  • Issue Year: 40/2024
  • Issue No: PI1
  • Page Range: 31-55
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Slovenian
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