Rethinking Critical Sociology, Transcending the Transcendental
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353283 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno Frère (0000-0002-1705-1248, National Fund for Scientific Research; University of Liege, corresponding author), Daniel Jaster (0000-0003-2960-0125, Eureka College) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 37-54 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1177/02632764231217082 |
| OpenAlex | W4390946399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
This article calls for a rethinking of critical sociology. Representing classical critical sociology, the Bourdieusian paradigm illustrated domination, but its negative foundation removed actors' power, privileging sociological knowledge as capable of identifying (social) transcendental categories of thought. Latour's constructivism challenged this privilege, giving actors the political power of aggregating collectives around their common concerns at the cost of emphasizing domination and critique. We propose a critical approach that evades a transcendental perspective reliant on pure negation, producing a more positive critical sociology founded on processualist phenomenological and pragmatic perspectives, principally Merleau-Ponty and Dewey. Actors and researchers can collectively ruminate on their perspectives and concerns to challenge power structures and transform their worlds. At the center of this is the social-mien, a creative reimagination of habitus. A brief discussion of the protests and scholarship surrounding the Notre-Dame-des-Landes activists' practice of democracy highlights the utility of the approach and serves as a model for future application
Constructivism (international relations · Critical theory · Epistemology · Habitus · International relations · Negation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Privilege (computing · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Transcendental number · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Kant’s Critical Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory
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Reassembling the Social
The Logic of Practice
The Craft of Sociology
We Have Never Been Modern
An Inquiry Into Modes of Existence
Our actions define who we are
On Critique
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Critique en acte de la vie quotidienne à la ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes (2013-2014)
French sociological pragmatism
Symmetrical twins
An interview with Luc Boltanski
Has Critique Run Out of Steam?-On Discourse Research as Critical Inquiry
Commodity Fetishism as Semblance
Questioning New Materialisms
Structuralism's Afters
Technology as Fetish
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
Bourdieu and Adorno
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |