Why reports of sociology’s public death are greatly exaggerated

We read with great interest Carlo Bordoni’s recent article in Social Europe, in which he argues that sociology is progressively surrendering its public voice to philosophy. It is a stimulating and provocative intervention, not least because it revisits a longstanding concern about the changing status of sociology in late modernity and echoes themes associated with the work of Zygmunt Bauman. Yet Bordoni’s diagnosis ultimately rests on a narrative of disciplinary decline that risks overstating both the coherence sociology once possessed and the extent to which philosophy has replaced it as a mode of public diagnosis.