Sociology and Ideology (International Studies in Sociology by Eliezer Ben-Rafael (ed.)

By Eliezer Ben-Rafael (ed.)

Sociology particularly is the scene of heated debates approximately ideology. This paintings brings jointly a sequence of articles that throw mild on chosen points of this complicated topic via sociologists resembling Boudon, Wittrock, Arnason, Touraine, Secombe, and Sternberg.

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Some people might look for other definitions 42 • Alain Touraine of sociology, whilst retaining the same word; but it seems to me both less ambitious and more realistic for us to ask ourselves, within the context of the sociological discourse and beyond, what is the meaning of the “social”? ” For example, discussing Australian society could in fact be paralleled to discussing Australia. The problematization of such references becomes clear when we consider Australia the continent and Australia the state.

A brief aside on autonomy may serve as a first sample of the field to be explored. The antinomies of the modern visions of human autonomy begin with the fact that they are – by definition – articulated in a strongly affirmative language, antagonistic to traditions and conducive to hubristic projections, but on the other hand open to rival interpretations and divergent ideological adaptations. More specific and derivative conflicts centre on the relationship between autonomy and rational mastery (autonomy is inseparable from the pursuit of mastery, but also from the reflexive resistance to absorption into the strategies and apparatuses that embody the logic of mastery), as well as the permanently unsettled question of individual and collective dimensions of autonomy.

But both levels of the problematic will now have to be interpreted in more general and more differentiated terms. Here I can only indicate the main directions of a more up-todate approach and signal connections with the historical and regional 36 • Johann P. Arnason contexts of the argument. At the most general level, the problematic of modern antinomies can be linked to the question of modernity as a civilization (this is, by the same token, also a way to link the redefined idea of critique to the rediscovered autonomy of culture).

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