Sociology and World Market Society

It was not pre-ordained that sociology should come 1nto extstence; anc lt 1S Dy no means guaranteed that sociology will continue to exist. In this essay I reflect on sociology's conditions of existence as a global project in past, and on its possible conditions of existence in future. Sociology, as an intellectual project and an academic practice, was created in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a specific formation within growing domain of To many of its first-generation practitioners, sociology was the social science, or universal social science. Sociology was integration of all scientific attempts to understand social facts and social problems. Its object of knowledge was social progress, conceived on grandest possible scale. This project allowed social critique. It even