Sociology fortifies a faithless faith in the very reality whose victims people are

Evidence

Proclaiming the existing social reality as its own norm, this sociology fortifies in the individuals the “faithless faith” in the reality whose victims they are: “Nothing remains of ideology but the recognition of that which is—model of a behavior which submits to the overwhelming power of the established state of affairs.” Against this ideological empiricism, the plain contradiction reasserts its right: “… that which is cannot be true.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 462

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: The language of sociology makes morally unsanctioned behavior unspeakable and thus unthinkable — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601; Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 111

Broader Connections