Por uma sociologia provocadora (de respostas)

Abstract

The emergence of sociology occurred at a time of crisis. Indeed, it is a science marked by crisis contexts. Suffice it to mention some of its representatives, who experienced moments of war and conflict, such as the classics of sociology - K. Marx, E. Durkheim, M. Weber - and, later, R. Dahrendorf, P. Bourdieu, N. Elias, and others. Recalling P. Bourdieu’s definition, sociology is a combat sport. Due to the rapid changes in the contemporary world, we are led to believe that our mission is to provide answers to the problems that afflict us from the everyday sphere, from the most distant, and even the unknown. Contrary to this conception, the proposal of this text - taken from the opening conference of the 22nd SBS Congress -, is to contribute to a sociology that provokes responses, in which sociological work is in a constant process of critical and self-critical dialogue with the theories and methods adopted, and the observation points of social reality are not taken as fixed, deterministic, but as moving and probabilistic.