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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3086726
AutoresStéphane Dufoix (0000-0002-4938-3810, Université de Paris-Nanterre, France; Institut universitaire de France, France, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen37
Número3
Páginas861-884
Fecha de publicación2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociedade e Estado (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0102-6992 • E-ISSN: 1980-5462
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-6992-202237030005
OpenAlexW4312596964
SCIELO_PIDS0102-69922022000300861
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas68

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

Appropriation · Epistemology · Hegemony · Historical sociology · History of sociology · Politics · Social science · Social theory · Sociological theory · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · German Social Sciences and History · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics