Protulipac, Armin.
(2017).
Suvremeni krizni narativi u sociologiji.
Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Sociology.
[mentor Matić, Davorka].
Abstract
The concept of crisis is present throughout the history of sociology. From its early days
as a distinct, autonomous science, established with the aim of studying the social aspect
of reality, sociology has been closely linked to various attempts at solving the crisis of
society, at the time induced by the radically transformative process of modernisation.
However, keeping in mind the blurry boundary between the object of study and the
science itself, it soon became clear that the crisis of society is more often than not also a
crisis of sociology, and that a specific type of mutual relationship exists between the two.
This mutual bond will continue to mark a large segment of later developments in
sociology, even to the point of becoming a central theme in epistemological and metatheoretical
discussions. Since the early 1990s, we have witnessed a renewed interest in
the issue of disciplinary crisis, contributed to in part by audit culture, the neoliberal
university, and the political and economic crisis of post-Cold War capitalism. The aim of
this paper is to give a brief survey of certain moments in the history of sociology when
there was an increased interest for the topic of disciplinary crisis, in order to be able to
provide at a later point an analysis of contemporary crisis narratives in sociological metatheory.
The ultimate goal of this paper, however, is not to simply list existing suggestions
or propose a new solution for sociology’s crisis, but rather to examine the causes,
consequences and implications of the crisis narratives themselves, i.e. the discourse of
disciplinary crisis in sociology. The analysis will place emphasis on sociology’s
beginnings in the 19th century, proceeding to works by A.W. Gouldner and R. Boudon
from the 1960s and 1970s, and finally concluding with contemporary authors such as M.
Burawoy, J. Holmwood and I. Wallerstein.
| Item Type: |
Diploma Thesis
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
crisis, metasociology, audit culture, interdisciplinarity, visibility |
| Subjects: |
Sociology |
| Departments: |
Department of Sociology |
| Supervisor: |
Matić, Davorka |
| Date Deposited: |
19 Mar 2018 12:52 |
| Last Modified: |
19 Mar 2018 12:52 |
| URI: |
http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/9663 |
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