From denied society to denied sociology

AbstractThis article returns on several of the classic founders of the sociology to showhow they thought about how to create a tradition that today finds itself denied.In the center of this tradition, with his debates, one finds regularly thepossibility of thinking the society as a whole. Nevertheless, in the last decadesand under the influence of disciplines strange to the sociological tradition, thecredence that it is not possible to think the society as a whole -what it is likein structures and from the conceptual point of view- has been gaining a place