Canons and Colonies

The Global Trajectory of Sociology

Bibliographic Data

ID4072303
AuthorsR Connell (0000-0001-8001-2375, The University of Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume32
Issue67
Pages349-367
Publication date2019-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEstudos Históricos (Rio de Janeiro (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-2186 • E-ISSN: 2178-1494
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s2178-14942019000200002
OpenAlexW2971674546
SCIELO_PIDS0103-21862019000200349
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited45

The history of sociology as a field of knowledge, especially in the English-speaking world, has been obscured by the discipline's own origin myth in the form of a canon of "classical theory" concerned with European modernity. Sociology was involved in the world of empire from the start. Making the canon more inclusive, in gender, race, and even global terms, is not an adequate correction. Important types of social knowledge, including movement-based and indigenous knowledges, resist canonization. The turn towards decolonial and Southern perspectives, now happening across the social sciences, opens up new perspectives on the history of knowledge. These can be linked with a more sophisticated view of the collective production of knowledge by the workforces that are increasingly, though unequally, interacting. Potentials for a more effectively engaged sociology emerge

Art history · Empire · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Happening · Historical sociology · Indigenous · Modernity · Mythology · Political science · Race (biology · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of knowledge · Anthropology · Classics · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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