FREE INQUIRY IN CREATIVE SOCIOLOGY VOLUME 1,1972 4 SUBSTANTIVE SOCIOLOGY FROM A SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE PERSPECITVE

Theoretically, sociology is the study of the forms of interaction through time and in space, which take place on a meaningful level between and among human beings (Blumer 1969 2). When we focus as observers on ongoing social interaction, our concepts of that action become to us rationally constructed reality based on two facts: 1) that something observable is there; 2) we now hold a resulting scheme of reality. But this observed action which is now a conceptual scheme originated in subjective meaning, corresponding to Pareto's residues existing in each person who produced the observed action. (Lopreato 1930 48). Social action which is observed as rationa