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The article argues that so-called ‘crisis of sociology’ is resulted from ‘the marginalization of causality’ in sociology. It is well known that the primary goal of science is to explain the cause of phenomena. Though many sociologists regard themselves as social ‘scientists’, most social researche...

The article argues that so-called ‘crisis of sociology’ is resulted from ‘the marginalization of causality’ in sociology. It is well known that the primary goal of science is to explain the cause of phenomena. Though many sociologists regard themselves as social ‘scientists’, most social researches have been committed to describe events itself rather than explain the cause of events. This paradox arises from ‘the standard positivist model of science’ which became a dominant methodological model in sociology with the support of ‘scientism’ and ‘professionalism’ since early 1900s. The standard positivist model focuses exclusively on empirical phenomena through the combination between statistics and logical positivism. Practically, equating ‘correlation’ with ‘causality’ or being concerned with only specifying phenomena or collecting data, the model has been led to marginalize the analysis of causality. As a result, the explanation got substituted by the description. Recently, ‘analytical sociology’ and ‘critical realism’ provide both strong criticisms against the positivist model and meaningful claims toward a viable alternatives. By analysing the ‘social mechanism’, they reintroduce and resurrect the causality to the central axis of sociology. From both of them, we can get the implication as follows: The current crisis of sociology is due not to the shortage of more empirical and more positivist researches, but to the limit of positivist model on which many researches are based.

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