The paper addresses the issue of ethics in relation to sociological praxis bydrawing upon the work of Levinas, Derrida, Nancy and others with regard to thenotions of responsibility and singularity. Seen in light of these concepts, it claimsthat any given sociological research or text can be considered as a form ofʻopeningʼ, ʻsharingʼ and ʻtouchʼ. Ethics, in this sense, arises primarily out of thisvery experience of being open to irreducible otherness at the dynamic moment ofthe encounter with alterity. As such, rather than merely representing a set ofpredefined rules and pre- given codes of conducts, ethics becomes that whichtransforms the work of sociology itself into an ethical tool or space of hospitalityfor accommodating alterity and responding responsibly to the call of the other.Ethics, in this sense, becomes a way of resisting absolute knowledge, absolutecertainty and the will to reduce the other into a ʻgraspableʼ category.<br/
