KLASICI SOCIOLOGIJE UNUTAR KULTURNE SOCIOLOGIJE / CLASSICS OF SOCIOLOGY WITHIN CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY

DRUŠTVENA ZBILJA KAO OBJEKTIVAN KOMPLEKS DOGAĐAJA I KAO KOMPLEKS REPREZENTACIJA / SOCIAL REALITY AS AN OBJECTIVE COMPLEX OF EVENTS AND AS A COMPLEX OF REPRESENTATIONS

Abstract

In this paper, I discuss the importance of the classical sociological thinkers for the development of cultural sociology programs. Based on this, the paper problematizes the specific position of one direction of cultural sociology and its “strong program”, and in that context, re-actualizes the contribution of classical theorists in understanding the interference between the cultural structures with the material/utilitarian and the political/ideological structures of the social world. It is primarily based on the analysis of Durkheim’s and Weber’s place in the sphere of cultural sociology, and the need to supplement the cultural sociology program with theoretical understandings of these thinkers, but also with the thinkers of modernity in general. Therefore, the paper seeks to offer a picture of a broader contribution of the “classics” to the understanding of cultural sociology, as well as the need to reconstruct certain aspects related to the cultural sociology program.