In order to understand how matters currently stand in critical sociology, the field of sociology, in which this critical discourse is produced, as well as its relations to professional, policy and public sociologies should be reconstructed. This article presents an alternative perspective to the one proposed by T. Warczok and T. Zarycki’s reconstruction of the field of sociology in Poland, their paper being interpreted as an action by strategic actors. This paper traces the limitations of critical sociology to the weaknesses of professional sociology, which often uses an essayistic genre and presents the knowledge on Polish society in a highly dramatized manner.