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- Title
Sociology in the Throes of Fascism: Parsonian Meliorism and Myths of Triumphalism.
- Authors
Carney, Larry
- Abstract
Efforts to identify the moral and political implications of sociological thought and practice have foundered on the shoals of the dissonances and heterodoxies of its practitioners, no less than have the grand designs to define the scope, theoretical content, and methods of the discipline itself. No Sociology of the upper case emerges from the analyses of the historical and contemporary products of those who have worked in the name of sociology and, despite valiant efforts, no theoretical paradigm has plausibly established its parameters as a science. Nazism reveals plainly and consistently the fundamentally meliorist character of his sociology and professional commitments as a scientist the modem world and its institutions could be threatened direly threatened as in the case of National Socialism but its socio-historical tendencies were progressive and emancipatory; the work of sociology was to build insight into these tendencies, to develop knowledge and modes of analyses that would enhance their positive features and allow enlightened elites to deal therapeutically with the inevitable strains among groups who were subject to the historical force of modernization or were victims of the uneven development of its various elements.
- Subjects
PRACTICAL politics; COMMUNISM; FASCISM; SOCIALISM; ANARCHISM; COLLECTIVISM (Political science); MELIORISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
International Journal of Politics, Culture & Society, 1994, Vol 7, Issue 3, p469
- ISSN
0891-4486
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF02142135