Bad Habitus (A Poorly Maintained Sociology blog)

Are sociology and historiography, which disclose the relativity of all knowledge by reporting these knowledges to their historical conditions, not condemned to recognize their own relativity as well, and by the way obliged to condemn themselves to a nihilist relativism? … in my opinion it is possible to combine a realist vision of the scientific world and a realist theory of knowledge … the relativistic arguments are only that forceful if they address a dogmatic and individualistic epistemology, that is to say a knowledge produced by an individual scientist who is confronting nature alone with his instruments (in opposition to a knowledge produced by a scientific field by means of dialogue and argument).

- Pierre Bourdieu, Science de la science et réflexivité