Sociology mirrored modern society by banishing ethical problematics from its discourse

Evidence

The nature and style of sociology has been attuned to the selfsame modern society it theorized and investigated; sociology has been engaged since its birth in a mimetic relationship with its object – or, rather, with the imagery of that object which it constructed and accepted as the frame for its own discourse. And so sociology promoted, as its own criteria of propriety, the same principles of rational action it visualized as constitutive of its object. It also promoted, as binding rules of own discourse, the inadmissibility of ethical problematics in any other form but that of a communally-sustained ideology and thus heterogenous to sociological (scientific, rational) discourse. Phrases like ‘the sanctity of human life’ or ‘moral duty’ sound as alien in a sociology seminar as they do in the smoke-free, sanitized rooms of a bureaucratic office. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 111

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s scaffold on how bureaucratic rationality disciplines discourse; anticipates later Islamophobia readings on how academic/scientific frames render moral questions inadmissible. — connects to: The language of sociology makes morally unsanctioned behavior unspeakable and thus unthinkable — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601; Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 481; Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514 (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the mimetic relationship: sociology internalizes its own object’s rational-action principles and treats ethics as ideologically heterogeneous to proper discourse.

Related

• The language of sociology makes morally unsanctioned behavior unspeakable and thus unthinkable (similarity 0.88)
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality (similarity 0.87)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.85)
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery (similarity 0.85)
• Sociology fortifies a faithless faith in the very reality whose victims people are (similarity 0.85)
• Academic sociology has structurally avoided engaging the Holocaust as a disciplinary challenge. (similarity 0.84)
• Modern societal organization can weaken moral drives and make immorality more plausible (similarity 0.82)
• Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force (similarity 0.81)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.81)
• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.81)
• Modern society weakens morality through distance, technical responsibility, and segregation (similarity 0.80)
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.80)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.80)
• Under modern order moral behavior often means resisting societal authority (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust failed to transform sociology’s self-understanding of modern civilization. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery #corroborates (0.88) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 47
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 481
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure #qualifies (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 514