The rise of interdisciplinary studies in social sciences and humanities and the challenge of comparative sociology

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ID2398136
AutoresSaïd Amir Arjomand (0009-0002-0083-5852, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume20
Fascículo2
Páginas292-306
Data de publicação2017-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431016646112
OpenAlexW2345636995
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas28

After briefly surveying three generations of comparative sociologists, interdisciplinary regional and trans-regional studies are shown to complement the work of the third generation of comparative sociologists on civilizational analysis and multiple modernities. Drawing examples from the interdisciplinary Persianate studies, promoted by the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies in the last two decades, and by other recent interdisciplinary studies of performance and world literature as well as Caribbean regional studies, it is argued that the rise of interdisciplinary studies in social sciences and humanities may in fact redeem the unfulfilled promise that comparative sociology once offered. These recent studies constitute a significant contribution to our theoretical understanding of different patterns of socio-cultural development beyond the West, whose historical experience gave birth to modern social science disciplines, and thereby to register the historical experience of a very sizeable portion of humankind as the basis for the reconstruction of social theory in the global age

Epistemology · Historical sociology · Humanities · Social science · Social studies · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cultural Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Philippine History and Culture