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The global dynamics of knowledge in social science
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aewyn Connell, based at University of Sydney, has been recognized so far as an international scholar in gender studies (among others: Masculinities, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995; Gender, Cambridge: Polity Press 2001). She has now published a book in the field of general sociology and epistemology, where again, her main interest is in uncovering schemes of domination. The book consists of four parts. The first part, “Northern theory”, contains three chapters that follow the development of sociological theory in a historical perspective. “Empire and the creation of a social science” presents an inquiry into the very origins of sociology and scrutinizes the writings of a variety of early classics. The author’s main objective here is to emphasize the role the global South has played in the creation of the discipline. Usually the emergence of sociology is contextualised as an endeavour of modern Europe, as a reflexive effort at times of social transformations related to the industrial revolution in the 19th century. Connell points out in how far this represents a reduction of the history of the discipline: what is just as obvious from early texts is the significance of the colonial project that European thinkers were accompanying – and partly justifying – with reflections on societies outside of Europe through “grand ethnography”, within evolutionist frameworks. Early sociology is much more global in scope than current general theory.
Wiebke Keim - Personal Name
978-0-7456-4248-2
NONE
Social Science
English
2010
1-9
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