The conditions of possibility of knowledge of the object, and of the object of knowledge in sociology

This article takes up the great question about social order from historical and epistemological perspectives. First, the author analyses society's inception as a relatively autonomous formation. Drawing from a critical reading of L. Dumont's and M. Guchet's historical epistemologies,...

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Published in:Estudios sociológicos (Mexico City, Mexico) Mexico), 2012-05, Vol.30 (89), p.315-329
Main Author: Vandenberghe, Frederic
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Subjects:
Autonomy
Cognition
Epistemology
Gift Giving
Habermas, Jurgen
Husserl, Edmund
Knowledge
Parsons, Talcott
Social Order
Social theory
Sociological Theory
Sociology
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Summary:This article takes up the great question about social order from historical and epistemological perspectives. First, the author analyses society's inception as a relatively autonomous formation. Drawing from a critical reading of L. Dumont's and M. Guchet's historical epistemologies, he establishes a relationship between sociology and anti-utilitarian theories of action. Then, the author goes on to develop a frame for the meta-theoretical analysis of social theory, basing his arguments on T. Parsons. At the same time, he reviews different solutions to the problem of the social order: the cognitive (Husserl), the normative (Parsons), the communicational (Habermas), the affective (Sheler), and the one based on the gift (Mauss). Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0185-4186