ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the objectifications as well as the methods that characterize sociology by beginning with this human type, this sociological attitude. It explains the analysis of the sociological human type, the analysis of the attitude out of which sociology first arises. The chapter emphasizes this negative possibility of sociology, and every active politician that rejects sociology for this reason is right to reject it. It explores that subjecting the most self-evident forms of life to distantiation and problematization is itself a self-evident phenomenon, that it is not something to be condemned, but rather something that must happen of necessity in the difficult life-situation in which we find ourselves. The chapter discusses the following divisions: sociology as attitude, as method, and as subject-matter. It shows first that this is unequivocally a specifiable sociological method and finally that there is a area which sociology must develop for itself as specialized discipline.
