What does it mean to live for sociology, today? In attempting to answer this question I return to Max Weber’s famous lectures delivered toward the end of his life—one on science as a vocation and the other on politics as a vocation. He presented ‘‘Science as a Vocation’’ in November 1917 toward the end of World War I and the more pessimistic ‘‘Politics as a Vocation’’ in January 1919 after Germ...

This article elaborates the relational ontology in an ethnographic study. The aim is to seek construction of preschool practice and how children’s positions are constructed it. study based on understanding that ethnography sociology share idea society emerges through repeated relations. ontological thinking applied a micro-level analysis three episodes from Finnish preschool. We propose relatio...

This paper describes how people’s future needs are derived by applying Cognitive Chrono-Ethnography (CCE), a study methodology for understanding people’s in situ behavior selections in daily life. CCE starts by defining critical parameters for understanding people’s behavior by considering the nature of behavior selection processes in the field in question, and then designing ethnographical fie...

This article introduces the idea of philosophical sociology as an enquiry into the relationships between implicit notions of human nature and explicit conceptualizations of social life within sociology. Philosophical sociology is also an invitation to reflect on the role of the normative in social life by looking at it sociologically and philosophically at the same: normative self-reflection is...