Introductory Remarks on Ideology and Sociology

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The main contention of this paper is that the eventual decline of ideology would pave the way to personalism and piece-meal policy-making. In this respect, sociology should analyze the process of social evolution while the ideological goals tend to concentrate on the middle-range and distant future.

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On the strained relationship between philosophy and sociology

Franco Ferrarotti (2014)

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 a technical expert, rather indifferent to a synoptic or global view of society, and ready to offer his or her services to the best offer in the open market. Social theory is reduced to “model building” according to the changing needs of the economic agencies, from government bodies to private entrepreneurs. Contrary to social theory, a model is a purely intellectual arbitrary construct and, although conditioned by a basic congruity among its different parts, it is not historically rooted but essentially a “fictio mentis”. In this way sociology loses inevitably its problem awareness and it runs the risk of “quantifying the qualitative”, that is to say to accumulate bits of knowledge without knowing for what purpose.

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Science, for What? Or: Science with Conscience - The Invisible College of Dissenting Nuclear Scientists

Franco Ferrarotti (2019)

The main contention of this essay is that sciences can be seen as belonging to two broad categories: a) demonstrative; b) interpretative. Demonstrative, or «tough», sciences are «natural» sciences; interpretative sciences are philosophy, history, all the social sciences, different as thy are (for instance, history is based on causal imputation; sociology, on conditional comparative approach). At present all sciences cannot presume to offer universally valid «laws», timeless and spaceless, but only general, probabilistic tendencies. Moreover, contrary to a misconception Max Weber’s «Wertfreiheit», no science is neutral. It pertains to the social responsibility of scientists the pratical use of eventual scientific findings (for instance, the atomic or the hydrogen bomb).

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Title: Academicus International Scientific Journal

Publisher: Academicus Journal

ISSN (Print): 20793715

ISSN (Electronic): 23091088

Publication date Created: July 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Volume: 24

Pages: 16-38

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[1 ]Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy

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DOI: 10.7336/academicus.2021.24.02

SO-VID: ec23ade5-be2f-4fdc-b58e-43b795b4fe7e

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