Citation

Vandenberghe F. Can. Rev. Sociol. 2017; 54(4): 405-422.

Affiliation

Rio de Janeiro State University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/cars.12168

PMID

29120112

Abstract

In this article, I want to make an attempt to reconnect sociology to moral philosophy and moral philosophy to sociology. The thesis I want to defend is that sociology continues by other means the venerable tradition of practical and moral philosophy. Like its forebears, it stands and falls with a defense of "practical wisdom" (Aristotle) and "practical reason" (Kant). The development of a moral sociology presupposes, however, that one recognizes and rejects Max Weber's theory of axiological neutrality as an extremist position and that one carefully articulates prescriptive and descriptive, internal and external, as well as observer and actor positions.

© 2017 Canadian Sociological Association/La Société canadienne de sociologie.

Language: en