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WIEVIORKA, Michel. ¿Sociología posclásica o declive de la sociología?. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2009, vol.24, n.70, pp.227-262. ISSN 2007-8358.

Classical sociology reached its zenith with parsonian functionalism, was then prey to destructuring, to end up in disintegration. The discussions on posmodernity, and later, globalization, reflect the crucial steps in this disintegration, succeeded by the emergence of a major event: the reappearance of the subject, promising to confer meaning to the sociological project anew. Indeed, the hypothesis of the subjects contibutes to the conditions for the aggiornamento of the institutions, social movements, or else violence and behaviors induced by oppression, rejection, the difficulty to build up an existence, to bring forth one's own choices. It also enables to consider sociology's future and the sociologist's status and possible commitment, divided as he or she is between the role of the expert or an immediately professional practice, on the one hand, and hypercritical positions, on the other.

Palavras-chave : Classical sociology; postmodernity; globalization; subject; commitment.