Reducing a philosophy to a systematic sociology is naive metaphysics.

Evidence

This is clear from the beginning in the way in which the problem is situated and from the desire to construct a systematic “sociology” of the philosophy of praxis—sociology, in this case, meaning precisely naive metaphysics. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1552

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci’s technical use of ‘sociology’ as a pejorative for dogmatic systematization — a term that will recur in Islamophobia critical readings.