In the article, we discuss sociology and its social positioning, which is often subjected to polemics, especially considering those studies which concentrate on naturalised social phenomena (e.g., gender). Drawing on the insights of Durkheim and his orientation to the socio-political significance of sociology, particularly as evident in his intervention during the Dreyfus Affair, we show that dilemmas to do with the broader socio-political positioning of sociology are ingrained in the very core of sociology and its object of analysis. Following Bourdieu, highlight (and insist) on the core tasks of sociology – the tasks of denaturalising the social and revealing symbolic domination and its effects which, non-coincidentally, are often the tasks most often referred to in reproaches of sociology and its supposed non-scientific and ideological status.
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