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Facing an Unequal World Challenges for Global Socialogy
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Sociology has a long and distinguished history opposing market fundamentalism and supporting society’s control over markets. This tradition is now most prominent in the South and in feminist and postcolonial thinking, but it stretches back to sociology’s origins in 19th century Europe and it includes 20th century US sociology as well as its critical appropriation (or repudiation) by the rest of the world. We need to build on these traditions as we assess and address inequalities on local, national and global scales.
We do so under ever more difficult and unequal circumstances. As scientists and teachers, our own workplaces are increasingly hostage to market forces that generate polarizing inequalities in our midst, sometimes surreptitiously, sometimes through open, indiscriminate privatization. Thus, many sociologists from both the North and the South could not afford to be with us here in Japan. Perhaps there was a time when we could pretend to be outside the world we study, but that time has passed. Today, as we study society, we are simultaneously engulfed by it. A case in point is our host country, Japan, devastated by the tsunami of 2011 and the nuclear catastrophe that followed, causing the unequal destruction of communities and displacement of popula- tions. This and the growing number of similar events call for a disaster sociology that is not just of society, not just in society but also for society.
International Sociological Association - Organizational Body
NONE
Management
English
2014
1-502
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