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The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions
About this book
"A brilliant treasury of wisdom and insight drawn from leading sociologists throughout the world...It is a striking achievement, of which the International Sociological Association can be very proud, to have brought so many independent-minded scholars into so productive a dialogue."
- Dennis Smith, Professor of Sociology, Loughborough University
Twenty-nine chapters from prominent international contributors discuss, challenge and re-conceptualise the global discipline of sociology, evaluating the diversities within and between sociological traditions of many regions and nation-states. They assess all aspects of the discipline: ideas and theories; scholars and scholarship; practices and traditions; and ruptures and continuities through an international perspective.
The Handbook argues that diversities in sociological traditions can be studied at three levels. First, they need to be studied from multiple spatial locations: within localities, within nation-states, within regions and the globe. Second, they need to be discussed in terms of their sociological moorings in distinct philosophies, epistemologies and theoretical frames, cultures of science and languages of reflection. Third, the intellectual moorings of sociological practices are extensive. The papers discuss the diverse and comparative sites of knowledge production and its transmission.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- About the Contributors
- Introduction: Diversities of Sociological Traditions
- PART ONE - The Debate: One Sociology or Many Sociologies
- 1 One Sociology or Many?
- 2 Religion and Reform: Two Exemplars for Autonomous Sociology in the Non-Western Context
- 3 Learning from Each Other: Sociology on a World Scale
- 4 Forging Global Sociology from Below
- PART TWO - Beyond the Classical Theorists: European and American Sociology Today
- 5 Sociology in the Spiral of Holism and Individualism
- 6 The Various Traditions and Approaches of German Sociology
- 7 Diversity, Dominance, and Plurality in British Sociology
- 8 Sociology, Science and Profession: The Portuguese Experience
- 9 The Visions and Divisions of American Sociology
- PART THREE - Local Traditions and Universal Sociologies: The Dilemmas of Post-Communist States of Central and Eastern Europe
- 10 Post-Communist Democratization and the Practice of Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe
- 11 What is Russian Sociological Tradition? Debates among Russian Sociologists
- 12 Traditions and Ruptures in Hungarian Sociology 1900–2000
- 13 Shooting at a Moving Target: Rediscovering Sociology in Bulgaria
- PART FOUR - Authoritarianism and Challenges to Sociology in Latin America
- 14 The Five Dilemmas of Latin American Sociology
- 15 Dependency Analysis: The Creation of New Social Theory in Latin America
- 16 Development, Dictatorship and Re-democratization –Trajectories of Brazilian Sociology
- 17 Dilemmas, Challenges and Uncertain Boundaries of Argentinian Sociology
- PART FIVE - The Colonial Heritage and its Sociological Traditions: Africa, the Middle East/West Asia, South Asia and the Caribbean
- 18 Sociology in West Africa: Challenges and Obstacles to Academic Autonomy
- 19 Dealing With Domination, Division and Diversity: The Forging of a National Sociological Tradition in South Africa
- 20 Academic Excellence and Social Relevance: Israeli Sociology in Universities and Beyond
- 21 Palestinian Sociological Production: Funding and National Considerations
- 22 Sociology in Iran: Between Politics, Religion and Western Influence
- 23 At Crossroads: Sociology in India
- 24 Ethnicity and Race within Sociology in the Commonwealth Caribbean
- PART SIX - Local or Universal: Identity and Difference in the Sociology of the Far East
- 25 A New Agenda for the Sociology of Transformation in China
- 26 Evaluating Sociologists in Taiwan: Power, Professionand Passers-by
- 27 Sociology in Post-World War II Japan
- 28 Sociology, Society and the State: Institutionalizing Sociological Practice in the Philippines
- 29 Reproducing the Centre at the Periphery: Antipodean Traditions of Sociology
- Name Index
- Subject Index