SOC232H5 Chapter Notes -Herbert Marcuse, Conservative Force, Harold Garfinkel
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Reflexive sociology concerned with what sociologists want to do and with what they actually do in. One reason we deceive ourselves and lie to others is because we are moral beings. Development of reflexive sociology requires that sociologists stop acting as if they thought of subjects and objects and distinct entities. Nominal objective of any scientific enterprise to extend knowledge of some part of world. Science aims at producing information to enhance power over world- know in order to control. Social world is to be known not simply by discovery of some external fact not by looking outward but by opening oneself inward. Awareness of the self is seen as an indispensable avenue to awareness of the social world. Seeks to transform the sociologist"s self and hence his praxis in the world. Aims at transforming the sociologist"s relation to his work.
