SOCIO-HERMENEUTICS AS A RESEARCH PROGRAM IN SOCIOLOGY

In this article we have tried to argue that socio-hermeneutics has been a tradition in itself in sociological knowledge since the inception of classical interpretative sociology. Its tradition is totally different from current postmodernist deconstruction and its ideas about the total power of text. Bourdieu's theories about linguistic practices such as social power practices are subsequently critically reviewed. Finally, the logic of the sociological discourse analysis (comprehensive and interpretative) is defined as a specific type of work which is separate from both quantitative analysis of content and structural text analysis of linguistic origins.