Sosyal bilimler ve gelecek ilişkisi: Olanaklılık, içerik ve sonuçlar

This study aims to discuss the relationship between the social science and the future. Although the future is an important element of social processes and human actions, there is an ambivalent attitude to its inclusion in social science. As the both source and reflection of this ambivalent attitude, the future, which is generally conceptualized as distant and not-yet in social science, has been indirectly included in the analysis of the social through certain common tendencies due to its position in thought. The most significant problem created by this situation arises from its effects on the relationship of social science with the social, the age and itself, rather than the immaturity of the sociology of the future. Thus, in the study, one of the main focuses of the discussion on the relationship between social science and the future is based on the questioning the prevailing position of the future in social thought. This focus is opened through the evaluations of the relationship between the social and time established by the theoretical approaches to time, which have received more extensive and settled attention than the future. The predicaments created by the theoretical debates in terms of the relationship between social science and the future have been reproduced by another tendency in the literature which focuses on time-related experiences and the inequalities between these experiences, and is called as the politics of time in the study. At this juncture, the analysis of the temporal structures of the examples selected from the manifesto genre opens up an important room for the attempt to contemplate on the relationship between social science and the future. In addition, the relationship in question is also evaluated with regard to the relationship between the future and science, which also shapes the definitional boundaries and content of the social. Based on these discussions, the future is positioned as a stance and perspective called as futural in the study, rather than a specific subject of study. The content of the futural stance and perspective is explained by discussing the features of temporality defined as the precondition of futural social science in the study, and questioning the position of the future.