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- Title
The end of sociology? A note on post-modernism.
- Authors
Brym, Robert J.
- Abstract
In the past few years, various writers have proclaimed the end of English, the end of history, and the end of nature and professor David Cheal has announced the end of modern sociology. Whatever reservations one might have about the validity of these claims, they are at least right on schedule. Increasingly since the year 1300, centuries' ends have been greeted with deep foreboding by social and religious thinkers. The social thinkers in the decade of 1890 also sensed the demise of an old society. They, too, engineered a massive transformation of social thought. Various thinkers were all in their different ways striving to comprehend the newly recognized disparity between external reality and the internal appreciation of that reality. The result was an enormous heightening of intellectual self-consciousness, re-examination of the presuppositions of social thought itself. Psychologist Sigmund Freud, sociologist Max Weber and other intellectual luminaries of western Europe recognized the irrational, unconscious, and subjective elements in human affairs and in social research. Significantly, however, the best social thinkers in the decade of 1890 were concerned with the irrational only to exercise it.
- Subjects
WESTERN Europe; SOCIOLOGY; POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy); FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; WEBER, Max, 1864-1920; SOCIOLOGISTS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1990, Vol 15, Issue 3, p329
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3340919