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More on standards in sociology: Replies to Barbera, Przepiorka, Skardhamar, Wang, and Zeng

Ozan Aksoy, Gianluca Manzo, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Werner Raub

Rationality and Society | Sep 30, 2026

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We respond to five comments on our position statement, published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the European Academy of Sociology, in which we proposed three principles for advancing disciplinary standards. Overall, the comments are broadly consistent with our position, primarily extending rather than challenging our main arguments. They constructively enrich the debate we sought to stimulate. The comments and our current response leave aside contested issues such as sociology’s “multi-paradigmatic” nature and the relationship between sociology and activism. We hope to address these topics in subsequent discussions. We remain committed to the view that sociology needs shared basic disciplinary standards alongside diversity in research questions and methods to foster creative scholarship and cumulative knowledge production.

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Ozan Aksoy

first | University of Oxford | ORCID 0000-0003-2170-6099

Gianluca Manzo

middle | Sorbonne Université | ORCID 0000-0002-4905-2878

Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund

middle | University of Oslo | ORCID 0000-0001-9382-8920

Werner Raub

last | Utrecht University | ORCID 0000-0001-5425-336X

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@article{Aksoy2026More,
  title = {More on standards in sociology: Replies to Barbera, Przepiorka, Skardhamar, Wang, and Zeng},
  author = {Ozan Aksoy and Gianluca Manzo and Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Werner Raub},
  journal = {Rationality and Society},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1177/10434631261492661},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631261492661}
}

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