Sociological Enlightenment - For Whom, About What
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2351400 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zygmunt Bauman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 71-82 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02632760022051112 |
| OpenAlex | W2173133384 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
All humanities, sociology included, are meeting places of stories told about stories. This circumstance casts humanities in a situation radically and irretrievably different from that of 'hard sciences', which cast their objects as nature. Through most of its history sociology was oriented towards collectively produced and maintained order: its task was to enlighten the legislators and supervisors of order. With the substitution of life-politics for Politics with a capital 'P', deregulation and privatization of ordering activity, enlightenment of autonomous subjects moves to the centre of sociological vocation
Art · Capital (architecture · Economics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Humanities · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociological theory · Sociology · Visual arts · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy
Engaging in democracy as creative freedom in Bauman’s theory. Prospects for reviewing humanist social theory today
The Emergence of Mother Teresa as a Religious Visionary and the Initial Resistance to Her Charism/a
Reflexivity and the Sociology of Practice
Being and becoming (of/with) Burawoy
The incurably incredulous living saint
Global Governing Organizations
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Highly cited | No |