THE SOCIOLOGICAL DISCOURSE, A CRITICAL AND REALISTIC POINT OF VIEW

We speak in our days more and more about subjects that require a interdisciplinary and multicultural approach. Science gives its hand with medicine, literature is connected with psychology and history or communication in order to present in another way our society, a society different than all other societies ever existed. This is the reason why today being a sociologist means, probably, another thing than in the traditional society. Now in the public area there are involved many actors with different interests, material or moral ones, and with different perceptions on the same subject, in according with their expectations. The sociological research is now, considering these aspects, in a position of offering a realistic point of view about the actual society, looking towards real problems that exist. Also, one cannot be a sociologist if he is not critic. Any sociological analysis and scientific discourse is critical, because it shows the existence of social issues; there are persons in the social field who doesn't want these problems to be revealed to entire population, so they have a negative perception about sociologists and their work, but the sociologist should maintain his position, no matter what. Only accepting the existence of our problems we can try to find ways of solving them or to decrease their negative effects. This paper is trying to reveal the importance of the sociological work for our actual society and the necessity that this work is accomplished respecting the ethical and procedural rules, offering critical and realistic analysis of social problems and, perhaps, solutions for solving them.