Sociology lacks a shared paradigm and so fragments into subdisciplines

Evidence

The lack within the discipline of a common theoretical paradigm with a shared theoretical language – which, of course, Luhmann sought to promote – has made it impossible to prevent sociology’s fragmentation. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Kuhn’s account of pre-paradigmatic science; connects to why Luhmann’s unified systems theory never anchored the discipline. — connects to: Time studies fail to accumulate because they lack systematic connection to general social theory — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 75