The epistemological potential of phenomenology in revealing the ideological aspects of social life

Sa？etak Ideology is frequently perceived as a multifaceted, vague, and even pejorative macrosociological concept. The first part of the paper focuses on the precise sociological definition of ideology as a concept, and the contextualization of the meaning of all great macrosociological concepts. Furthermore, this paper aims to propose a framework for empirical and epistemological research of ideology within the framework of sociology as a science. Multi-paradigmatic and pluriperspective features of sociology, which are frequently pointed out as its faults, are in this paper presented as a certain advantage of sociology. The proposed framework is approached from the basis of phenomenology as protosociology; that is, philosophical discipline which creates the foundation for orientational, phenomenological research of ideology by combining the qualitative and quantitative sociological methods