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Vanesa Amaris
University of Tirana Tirana, Albania
Materials Science & Nanotechnology Social Sciences

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A Critical Humanist Intervention: Agency, Structure and Values Vanesa Amaris
International Journal of Science and Society Vol 3 No 1 (2021): International Journal of Science and Society (IJSOC)
Publisher : GoAcademica Research & Publishing

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The main aim of the article is to suggest what and how a contemporary, revised version of humanism, inflected with critical realism and Marxism, can contribute to sociology. I focus primarily on two areas in which sociology is often found lacking today: theorizing the relationship between structure and agency, and deciding what to do with moral evaluations in sociological analyses. I argue that the solution to both lies in attempting to finally transcend the traditionally hostile and mutually exclusive paradigms of “humanist” or “cultural” Marxism on the one side and “anti-humanist” or “scientific” Marxism on the other. This enables us to carefully reinstate the agency of human subjects and the moral dimension, both of which were and still are dismissed by anti- or post-humanist social science, without neglecting the objective and causally relevant existence of social structures at the same time.
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