Karl Marx (1818-83) Max Weber (1864-1920) Émile Durkheim (1858-1917)

TLW's Sociologistscope™

By T.L. Winslow (TLW), the Historyscoper™

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Original Pub. Date: Nov. 15, 2023. Last Update: Nov. 16, 2023.


Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Michèle Lamont (1957-)

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"Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand." - Karl Marx (1818-83)

"Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results." - Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

"Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... There can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals." - Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

"No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time." - Max Weber (1864-1920)

"While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide." - Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)

"The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood." - Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)

"With sociology one can do anything and call it work." - Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000)


What Is A Historyscope?


Westerners are not only known as history ignoramuses, but double dumbass history ignoramuses when it comes Sociology and the history of sociology. Since I'm the one-and-only Historyscoper (tm), let me quickly bring you up to speed before you dive into my Master Historyscope.

Sociology is the scientific study of society, taking the word "scientific" with a grain of salt.

On Apr. 17, 2019 Jan Balon and John Holmwood pub. the article The impossibility of sociology as a science; arguments from within the discipline in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, with the conclusion: "As we have seen, sociology comes to be represented by Abbott (2001) as irredeemably contradictory, a fractal discipline, made up of multiple, mutually contradictory approaches and aggregates of contradictory elements. It is not merely that correspondence criteria of adequacy are undermined, so, too, are coherence criteria. The sociological promise – first set out by Durkheim - to reconcile science and social criticism is confounded. Sociology's impossibility becomes its plurality."




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