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    4 Aworld apart, inne and mos able expose she cotng parca of ‘err oe say fesent png oo anh aera gt er ey be tar oped cates te hee cal ee a eee encanta tal cv ppetagpowe ee Reve buried overt inno way ndcmined fy fa ht aaa hl niece cnt eas oe pect he mc, gn ce ee Rat enh rset olf ap nsenden wt pect othe cone een a cocte ane peste ae gu sg ciel cele copeontt cei se Imes and eve the biter ofl he marks edt Fee ie etna repre techs Srna eta ein ede ree Tl Why the social sciences must take themselves as their object 1 eabing the proble of knowledge in the way that I bave, U hive constantly bech thinking ofthe soil sciences, of which Eve fe pas denied th: particulary. Tid so not out of some kind of pose, sti sintsm, a8 some may think or pretend to tia, hat Benaoe alta ofthe “difference” ofthe stil scence is chen no mare than a way of Secrecing the impossibity of scenic understanding of their objec. Tam thinking for example of a book by AdaE Grinbaum (1988) which descnbes the attempts by some. pho phers, Habermas, Ricoeur et, ose prion limits to there coy (And this I find absolutely unjustifiable why postulate tha cert things are uninowabie, and, moreover, do 309 privy before ay experience? Those who are hostile to sciemce have daplacel act concentrated tet fury onto the socialsciences andy more preci, onto sociology no doubt chereby helping to slow down is develop ment — perhaps because the natural sciences no longer ofr them ey scope fr anak. They decree unknowable certain number of tines Such as the religous and allt subeitues, at and scene, wich oe Should cease ty to explin.) Ie wat againat tis mulform res ance to the sosal sciences that The Craft of Sociology (Bourdien, ‘Chamboredon ind Passron 1991) insisted that te socal scene og ene like others, exept that chey enon para elif) Being siences ike others a6 The socialsciences and ther object That difculy spears perhaps even more cll tome now dit seems tome than onder to csy out the cnc poet ithe ‘eats hue r ce boot require To bring to igh what he hidden par encllnce, ‘what ape the gaze of sence becuse rs deni the very ase ofthe scent he ramscendentaluaonsciou, oe bas to hore \the saber of inorcston to sbjectvate the subj ofthe eb ‘tion, that iy the batorcal amcendental, the checvtion of Sich the pronation forte acct of sone rs sltawareasy in other word to knowledge of harosal presppostons. The iaramettsenon cnt heel wn he asked to peovide the means of eseuing these Sciences from the la tvtadon'to which they are exposed so long as their productions tein determine’ by the wncoscos detentions tat ae Scribd inthe cat's mand or in the sor condons wan ‘wich he produces. And do ths they hae to coniont she clit Tie or spec cicl and break it by plementing in oda to ‘form the sence ofthe sol sences tad ofthe cena who Produce them ~ al the inserts chat these vexyscnces proride dso produce the means of countering the soil determina ‘sich tne sens ne exposed "Tnnsnd oe fe ar pipes of te atc te sega lh cane tron a ay ‘ele to wen sasing the gueston ofthe reatioshp beeen ‘Sete dd sonny. Th varius ene cold oe hobed dccordng to the degre of atonomy ofthe Bld of ace prose thon with eapet to the varus forms af external presure =o omic, plital, cc in fer with weak tonoy, which are therefore dep messed soc etiony such ay astonom or ysis thf phse, the pes faucg evlasons were so felou evolusons which could be retedplnealy wh some hancecf sucess neat in he shor tema whic, hi how of Copesicor or Calico, uesyransormed te wordhew in as yinresing the eroe-contol and providing the principles of A techocaleritiqe, which makes i posible to keep close watch ovet the factors capable of basing verse te not mater af pursing new form of absolute kaowedge, but of exercising» space fox of epatemological vigilance, che very form that ths sigice must tke Iman ata where the pstemclapeal cer ar fis mid foremost teil obstacles, “Thescience most sensitive ro soil determinism mus ined find within self the resources which, methodally applied ab acriecal device (and disposition) ean enable ito limit the eects of Rion and scl determinism Tobe abl to apply other own pactice the ‘objeevating techniques chat they apply to the other senses sociolr Est have ro contr ellexviy into a disposition constittive of thele Scietic habitus, a reflect seflr, capable of acting no-ex post on ‘he ops operatm, bata prion, the modus operand (disposition ‘ae will make i imposible, for example, to analyse te apparet silences in statistical date fom diferent counts witout looking for the aferences hidden beween the categories of analysis or the

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