The achievement of sociology

• Main Author: Salvador Giner
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2004-01-01
• Series: INTERthesis
• Subjects: Sociologia; Ciências humanas; Consciência sociológica; Condição humana; Objetividade humana; Sociología; ciencias humanas; conciencia sociológica; condición; Sociology; Human sciences; Sociological conscience; Human condition
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/interthesis/article/view/609

This essay begins saying that the contemporary conscience wouldn’t be the same without the presence of sociology – a human science and not only social – which is, in the group of the social sciences, the cognitive science that studies the human condition. Sociology is a multidimensional science, being its history that one of a discipline that cumulates objective knowledge. However, only the ethics of objectivity is not enough to cultivate the human sciences. They will encompass amplitude, as well as theoretical dignity, only if grounded on our moral competence. Finally it states that the continuity of the sociological mode in the modern culture and its current hegemony are justified only if sociology keeps faithful to the principles of rational intention on one hand, and to the humanism on the other, without losing, between them, the space of the social structure of liberty and the human dreams.