Succes als bedreiging. De paradoxale situatie van de sociologie

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The present situation of sociology is analyzed in the manner that the secularization thesis deals with religion. The initial promise of scientific salvation -- shared by both the natural & the social sciences -- is reviewed. While the religious flavor of nineteenth-century science has vanished, the pretention that there is a surplus value in scientific rationality remains. The new situation can be seen as a result of a process of trivialization of sociological content, since the general public became sociologically educated, & no longer recognizes sociological viewpoints as the property of a distinct profession. This process coincides with the process of the politicization of science. Modified HA