The Relevance of the Classics in the Sciences of the Spirit: The Formation of the Sociological Canon

Abstract

This article discusses the problem of the different logics of the knowledge that lies under the natural sciences and the sciences of the spirit. The discussion re-stars since the famous Methodenstreit at the end of 19º century. Also, the author defends the between the sociology, the story, and the other disciplines related. Those disciplines, after a fast process of institutionalization, are perceived as particular fields nowadays, in the sense described by Bordieu. The history of sociology is reconstructed, and there is also an account of the elements that allow explaining, in this particular discipline, the presence of classic authors and of their functional relevance in the renewal of the theoretical, unless since the first Parsonian synthesis, in 1937.