Enlightenment-based sociology fragments because theories depend on observers’ beliefs about human nature

Evidence

The inner validity, coherence, and objective significance of all sciences, technologies, and arts are completely independent of the fact that they are realized within and find their preconditions in a social life, just as independent as their objective sense is of the psychological processes through which their discoverers found them. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange; The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210; Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology (+8 more)

Related

• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins (similarity 0.86)
• Social relations can be analyzed purely as formal configurations (similarity 0.82)
• Sociology’s method-driven path has failed to deliver its Enlightenment promises (similarity 0.81)
• Social movements generate theory rather than merely applying it (similarity 0.81)
• Concepts formed without social context restrict and confine knowledge (similarity 0.81)
• Human essence is the ensemble of social relations, not an individual abstraction (similarity 0.80)
• A misplaced realism in sociology stems from misunderstanding the objects it studies. (similarity 0.80)
• Simmel advanced technical sociology mainly as a byproduct of metaphysical concerns (similarity 0.79)
• Social knowledge alters its subject, unlike natural-science observation (similarity 0.79)
• Sociology’s proper object is the forms relating two or more individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Humanity’s viewpoint and society’s viewpoint remain in principle distinct (similarity 0.79)
• Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology (similarity 0.79)
• Sociology is one method among many, not a master science (similarity 0.79)
• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange (similarity 0.79)
• Schutzian sociology dissolves social relations into structures of everyday knowledge (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology #exemplifies (0.50)
• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #complicates (0.40)
• The truth of ideas is independent of their social origins #complicates (0.30) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 210