Sociologism

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Sociologism is an expression for a position which, from a scientific point of view, overestimates the influence of the social . The expression was originally coined in France in the last third of the 19th century. In some cases the term was used synonymously with sociology , but in some cases it was also used as a fighting term against an "imperialist" expansion of the sociological method to include psychology , ethics , philosophy and history .

In Germany, a Marxist sociology and, more recently, social constructivism have been criticized because “sociological explanations” are used to try to trace all psychological and cultural phenomena back to their social circumstances. The socio logistical concept of the individual in psychology is doing as "About socialization called" contrary to the economistic "Under socialization" in the homo economicus model. In ethics or morals, approaches have been criticized as "sociologistic" which have relativistically reduced norms and values to social situations. In philosophy it is viewed as sociologism when intellectual processes are reduced to social processes and a priori conceptualization and category formation are relativized so that all knowledge and all knowledge appears to be dependent on the social context. This relativization also extends to other areas of science, in that findings, for example in natural science, which are considered to be certain, are questioned in the argumentation.

See also

  • Biologism , a position that overestimates the influence of the biological

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Salomon : Sociology and Sociologism. In: ders. - Work edition 2: BD. 2: Writings 1934-1942, edited by Peter Gostmann and Gerhard Wagner, VS Verlag, 2007, p. 127.
  2. ^ Albert Salomon: Sociology and Sociologism. In: ders. - Work edition 2: BD. 2: Writings 1934-1942, edited by Peter Gostmann and Gerhard Wagner, VS Verlag, 2007, p. 128.

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