and criticism dialegein sociology of literature ( world vision and research ) Sociology

Abstract

Verily, the Sociology of Literature has been and is still a phenomenon since the Fifties last century, when the critic, Lucian Goldman announced that literature is a sociological phenomenon and it carries a world-view and he fixed the pillars of this science, and the controversy between sociology and criticism continued, and because they are interconnected and open to other sciences of the humanities, researchers started to set fine borders between them, especially when the methodological analysis relies on a specific sample, which is the literary text, specifically novel and playwright and some Arab traditional critics see that poetry represents a world-view, in that it expresses how a social group view the world, but research outweighed novel according to objective proofs; and also that researchers tend to view sociology of literature as closer to criticism even though its name is associated with Sociology.