Disciplinar boundaries in the sociological examination of modes of human symbioses

Tóth, János (2012) Disciplinar boundaries in the sociological examination of modes of human symbioses. In: Proceedings in Electronic International Interdisciplinary Conference. EDIS Zilina University Publishers, Zilina, pp. 493-496. ISBN 978-80-554-0551-3

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Abstract

Today, researches conducted within the discipline of sociology seems to have a relatively analogous vison on the quality of being of human nature and collective existence and, as a consequence, on social reality. In this paper, we will try to show that the concept of social reality is far from being universally valid as a generalization of human coexistences at the macro level, and that the understanding of the object of sociology require adressing the totality of the modes of human symbioses, many of them posessing collective qualities currently outside the scope of social sciences. The proposed solution is the reconstruction of the disciplinary characteristics of sociology in terms of an imaginative narrative, where theological explications of society belongs to the same narrative category as mainstream frame of analyses bound by a modernist ontology and epistemology.

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