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Do western sociological concepts apply globally? : Towards a global sociology

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Neubert, Dieter:
Do western sociological concepts apply globally? : Towards a global sociology.
In: Sociology. Bd. 56 (Januar 2022) Heft 5 . - S. 930-945.
ISSN 1469-8684
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385211063341

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Abstract

The post-colonial debate challenges the self-certainty of sociology and the suggested universality of its theoretical premises. This has led to calls to provincialize sociological theories and concepts and include perspectives from the South. Thus, we need to ask whether sociological concepts apply globally. Burawoy’s notion of a professional ‘global sociology’ offers a starting point for provincializing sociological concepts without giving up their global applicability. The problems involved in applying the core sociological category of class to Kenya show that classical sociological concepts may be inadequate for analysing societies outside the European and North American context. For the analysis of inequality, we need a more open and empirically founded concept in which the classical notion of class describes just a particular pattern of social structure. For the development of sociological concepts, we always require a broad empirical and intercultural basis in order not to be caught in the trap of Eurocentrism.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: class; global sociology; inequality; post-colonial critique; provincialization; social structure; sociological concepts
Fachklassifikationen: 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Lehrstuhl Entwicklungssoziologie
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Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Eingestellt am: 28 Jan 2022 08:59
Letzte Änderung: 19 Okt 2022 10:39
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/68532