Barbarians at the Open Gates |
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Authors: | Gábor Scheiring |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Sociology and Social Policy,Budapest Corvinus University,Budapest,Hungary |
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Abstract: | Burawoy’s manifesto connects to a long series of debates on the role of science in society as well as on the myth of pure
science. This paper argues that the gap between professional sociology and public sociology is far from being unbridgeable
and that public sociology is not suppressed to the extent portrayed by Burawoy. In late modern societies a number of schools,
including various scientific, public and intellectual movements have questioned the possibility, value position and social
relevance of a functionally differentiated pure science by applying the sine qua non of modernity, i.e. critical reflection, to science. According to the argument developed here, also illustrated by a personal
example, Burawoy could possibly prevent the gate-keepers of the empire of pure science from closing the otherwise open gates
in front of his program and in front of critical reflection if only he used less harsh war-cries and were more careful in
detecting the changes he himself urges. |
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