Talk:Humanistic sociology
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[edit] Humanistic Sociology
I have taken three semesters of Humanistic Sociology so in no way am I an expert but I definitely fall into the class of devoted follower. Humanistic Sociology is central to my work as an educator. I would very much like to see this article fixed and expanded.
[edit] the positivisim error and philosophical balance
It is quite wrong to equate Humanistic sociology with positivisim and postmodernisim. The previous article completely contradicted the Antipositivism article. This is the main reason why I have rewritten it. This page now agrees with Antipositivism page description of Humanistic Sociology.
[edit] Historical development
It needs a historical context with the tragic history of Poland in the 20th century. We need to acknowledge the major intellectual contribution of the Polish thinkers such as Zaniecki, Ossowski and Ingarden
[edit] Schools of Humanistic Sociology
It needs a description of the results of the major humanist sociologists Zaniecki, Ossowski ect...
[edit] Results of Humanistic Sociology
It needs a summary of the results of this domain of Sociology, like the dynamics of the interactions of value-systems and how not to confuse Humanistic Sociology with subjects like cultural theory.
[edit] Academic Legacy
The importance of the major domains such as Tradition, Values and Culture and how they have influenced other important domains outside of sociology such as psychology, education and not least political science. Please add contributions
[edit] Postmodernisim
This article is not a diatribe against Postmodernism. I have pointed to the difference, I have not labelled postmodernism as unscientific, like many others. It is important to avoid ontological extremes.
- Nigel Savage 09:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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Hello to anyone who edit's this page. One centeral point i would like to preserve is the fact that "Znaniecki's model was derived independently of Max Weber and Emile Durkheim" hence it is an important alternative model to the standard academic models found in the so called "west" Nigel Savage 03:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This Article Needs Major Help
Its unclear to me what the connection is between humanistic sociology and most of the content in this article. I'm sure there is a way to connect structuralism, functionalism, etc. to humanistic sociology but that hasn't really been done here. RedHouse18 14:09, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This Article Needs Major Help Note
Redhouse humanistic sociology started symbiotically in the States and Poland at the turn of the last century, since then it has stayed relevant (note the socio's group tag as High importance), this is its connection to all the major schools of sociology since that time. One importance is that it allows a perspective on the two competing paradigms of functionalism and structuralism and there many offshoots. That is to say and I believe it is true that humanistic sociology is apart from these schools thus allowing a unbiased critique (that is to say that a functionalist might disagree with a structuralist analysis and who is to say this disagreement is not a result of inherent bias such as capitalisms distrust of the concept of class structures or the Soviets horror of a bourgeoisie artists production of cultural capital). Also as I try to point out there is a thread of sociology somewhat independent of the functionalist/structuralist dichotomy leading from phenomenology to ethnomethedology most notably in Bordieu’s work. Humanistic sociology is as relevant today as it was over 100 years ago and to all the major developments along the way. Any way I have tried to answer what I believe is a very good question of yours cheers58.167.42.253 09:59, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
