Theoretical Labors Necessary for a Global Sociology

Critique of Raewyn Connell’s Southern Theory

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ID20040986
AutoresIsaac Ariail Reed (0000-0002-6318-763X, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Páginas157-171
Data de publicação2013-08-22
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoDecentering Social Theory Political Power and Social Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraEmerald Group Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1108/s0198-8719(2013)0000025014
OpenAlexW2494556303
ISBN9781781907269
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas10

This essay considers the relationship between global sociology and sociological theory through an examination of the critique of Northern Theory developed by Raewyn Connell. The author accepts many of Connell’s criticisms of the formation of the Northern Theory canon, and of the false universalism of contemporary Northern Theory, but disputes the degree to which Connell has succeeded in finding a replacement for the “ethnosociology of the metropole” provided by current sociological theory. In particular, the author suggests that, in Southern Theory, Connell pursues an intellectual history of world philosophies instead of the development of theoretical concepts that could provide a more adequate global sociology from a Southern perspective. Connell leaves the reader with a reconstructed canon of classics, but without a new repertoire of middle-range explanatory and interpretive concepts with which to reconstruct our understanding of history itself. The former may be the necessary first step toward the latter, however, rendering Southern Theory an important moment in the global turn in sociological theory

Epistemology · Historical sociology · Political science · Social science · Sociological theory · Sociology · Universalism · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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