Ethics and Sociology
Will the institutionalising of ethical codes help solve «what sociologists do to people they interview»? Our discussion will show that while doing so might implement the principle of precaution both for the researchers and the interviewees yet it by far fails to answer the principle of responsibility. Along this line, we will question the meaning of the «enforcement» of the phrase above and examine it in connection with the technical, practical and liberating characteristics of the interest for knowledge as defined by Habermas. Then we will develop how the ethical issue is played at the ontological, epistemological as well as methodological level, within sociological practice itself.