Public Sociology And Its Normative Commitment - 1169 Words

4.1. Public sociology and its normative commitment Concerning Burawoy’s appeal for sociologists to be involved in social change and improvement, Hanemaayer Schneider (2014) asked how and under what circumstances should or should not sociologists advocate for social change? And how do we know what is best for humanity? Noteworthy of Durkheim’s concerns of public sociology is the caution of the discipline being value-ladden in terms of its normative commitments on social issues (Hanemaayer, 2014). In its ambition to recommend what is best for humanity, the discipline can become guilty of becoming an ideological science; where the discipline becoming overdetermined to provide solutions through moralization which causes it to erroneously use its value-oriented notions to govern the collation of facts. The danger of this approach is that the concept, i.e. what is good or right in the interest of humanity, normatively determines the organization of facts as the concept reproduces itself upon the facts (aprior organization of facts) (Hanemaayer, 2014). Thus, research no longer becomes a tool for objective and critical analysis but a way to legitimate the values the sociologist wants to see. Title (2004) also argues that every social issue inherently involves moral dilemmas as what is or is not can be ambiguous. 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