Kritička sociologija
Critical Sociology

Author(s): Ivica Mladenović, Dušanka Milosavljević, Zona Zarić
Subject(s): Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Orthodox vs. Heterodox Sociology; Value Neutrality; Critical Sociology; Scientific Objectivity
Summary/Abstract: When it comes to the attitude towards criticism, the entire history of sociology can be summarized by establishing a dichotomy: orthodox versus heterodox sociology. This division is neither new nor excessively original, nor is it characteristic of sociology as only one of the social sciences and humanities. As noted by the Canadian and French sociologist Marcel Rioux (Rioux 1969: 54), Léon Brunschvicg is, for example, distinguished between "sociologists of order" and "sociologists of progress", Pitirim Sorokin (Pitirim Sorokin) between "analytical" and "synthetic sociology", and he himself derives the division into "critical" and "aseptic sociology".1 The foundation of the aforementioned two sociological approaches to social reality is their functional relationship to the dominant order, and two classics, Karl Marx and Max Weber, stand out as figure-models, that is, on the one hand, Marx's Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach, in which he insists that until his time philosophers only interpreted the world differently, but that it is necessary to work on changing it, and, on the other hand, Weber's concept of Wertfreiheit, which postulates that sociology must "free itself from valuation."

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