Original sentence: It is not designed to create or react to a body of empirically based methods and theories which aim to discover how the world works, but an innerdisciplinary movement to encourage sociologists to move beyond simply describing and explaining the world and instead change it for the better
Edited sentence: It is less a body of empirically based methods and theories aimed at discovering how the world works, and more a movement that entails the idea that sociologists should tell us not just what is but what ought to be