The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions

Patel, Sujata

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“…While about 200 of these concern the European and North American world, about 230 are organized around chapters on Latin America, Soviet Russia, Japan, China, India, Africa or the Middle East! With the exception of the third edition of Social thought from Lore to Science, in 1961, this is probably the earliest work to take into account the global landscape of sociology before the various collective works appearing in 2010 (Burawoy, Chang & Hsieh, 2010;Patel, 2010;World Social Science Report, 2010). While it is much more organized by themes and theories than by authors and countries, Tom Bottomore and Robert Nisbet's classic work (1978) on the history of sociological analysis includes, to my knowledge, only one reference to a non-Western author, the Brazilian economist and sociologist Theotonio dos Santos, who is cited in relation to dependency theory in Steven Lukes' chapter on "Power and Authority" (Bottomore & Nisbet, 1978: 637).…”

Section: Taking Up the Distinction Established By Stuartmentioning

confidence: 99%

A larger grain of sense. Making early non-Western sociological thought visible

Dufoix

2022

Soc. estado.

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There are different ways to read sociological theory “against the grain”, as Walter Benjamin put it in 1940. The issue of invisibility - or invisibilization - is certainly the most important one. The mainstream and canonical narrative of the history of sociology and of sociological ideas and theories hardly leaves any room to non-Western appropriations and indigenizations from the late 19th century onwards. The article wants to offer another disciplinary history and another chronology by relying on instances from the late 19th century and early 20th century especially in Latin America and Asia (Japan and China). The circulation of different authors, books and theories, as well as their different reception according to the different countries and their different intellectual, social and political environments makes it possible to design a new chronology of sociological theory and of the institutionalization of the discipline. Despite the epistemic hegemony that was already established in the second half of the 19th century with the diffusion of sociological thought from France and Great-Britain (with Comte and Spencer), this circulation was no mere transplantation but rather a complex and selective appropriation that makes it possible for very different visions of the meaning of “sociology” as a movement of thought and also as an academic discipline.

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Section: Taking Up the Distinction Established By Stuartmentioning

confidence: 99%

A larger grain of sense. Making early non-Western sociological thought visible

Dufoix

2022

Soc. estado.

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“…Another intervention focuses on introducing the writings of non-western thinkers and schools into the academy (Alatas and Sinha, 2017;Onwuzuruigbo, 2018;Patel, 2009). This intervention grew out of calls 'to build autonomous and indigenous sociologies .…”

Section: How Decolonial Debates Circumvent Movement Textsmentioning

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Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

Ahmad

2022

Sociology

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Despite the decolonial turn among sociologists, we have yet to engage a vast amount of thought produced by anti-colonial movements. The circumvention of much of this thought indexes overly restrictive understandings of what constitutes social theory, and I diagnose three ways in which this plays out. Anti-colonial movement texts provide striking demonstrations of this limitation, and of what is lost as a result. Through a close study of a banned 1970s pamphlet from Pakistan, I show that critically deepening the decolonial project through an engagement with movement texts raises ethical questions about the academy’s relationship to political struggle and demands new methodologies of archival retrieval that recognise the scattered, fragmented condition of texts subject to colonial violence. If addressed, southern movement texts reveal counter-infrastructures of knowledge production replete with counter-political vocabularies that challenge homogenising academic definitions of the Global South and enrich our theories of decolonial praxis.

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“…Críticas semelhantes à divisão intelectual do trabalho logo se seguiram, juntamente com críticas ao cânone sociológico, que estava sendo cada vez mais confrontado com acusações de eurocentrismo e apelos para a decolonização (Connell, 1997;Gutierrez Rrodriguez;Boatcă;Costa, 2010;Randeria, 1999). Hoje, trabalhos que desafiam o suposto universalismo da teoria e métodos derivados de contextos ocidentais e, por sua vez, exploram colaborações de pesquisa Sul-Sul e contribuições do Sul estão firmemente estabelecidos na Sociologia crítica e na Antropologia (Connell, 2007;Keim et al, 2014;Patel, 2010). Ao mesmo tempo, historicizar nossa compreensão sociológica de como as desigualdades sob o capitalismo nasceram globais ainda é uma tarefa pendente.…”

Section: Crítica Epistemológica: Desigualdades Globais De (Re)produçã...unclassified

DESIGUALDADES GLOBAIS: filiações teóricas e críticas radicais

Boatcă

2022

Cad CRH

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Este artigo argumenta que a abordagem do sistema-mundo de Immanuel Wallerstein foi fundamental para revelar pontos cegos teóricos e metodológicos da Sociologia e para formular um quadro abrangente para o estudo das desigualdades globais. Ao fazê-lo, antecipou tanto a crítica ao eurocentrismo como ao nacionalismo metodológico, apresentada pelas abordagens transnacionais e pós-coloniais, e os debates sobre o aumento das desigualdades globais em várias décadas. Este artigo liga essa primazia analítica a vários fatores: à mudança metodológica da análise dos sistemas-mundo do Estado-nação para toda a economia-mundo capitalista como uma Sociologia global inicial; e à relação entre a mudança metodológica para a crítica epistemológica e seu papel na abordagem inicial de Wallerstein às desigualdades globais. Finalmente, abordo a relação entre a autodefinição da análise dos sistemas-mundo como forma de protesto contra a ciência social dominante (e não como uma teoria) e as filiações teóricas e políticas com abordagens pós-coloniais e decoloniais, para mostrar como elas contribuíram em conjunto para identificar as desigualdades globais como tema.

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The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions

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A larger grain of sense. Making early non-Western sociological thought visible

A larger grain of sense. Making early non-Western sociological thought visible

Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

DESIGUALDADES GLOBAIS: filiações teóricas e críticas radicais

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