Post-Western Sociology - From China to Europe

<p>This book is rooted in an epistemological approach to sociology in which the boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies are acknowledged and built on. It argues that knowledge is organised in conceptual spaces linked to paradigms and programmes which in turn are linked to ethnocentred knowledge processes; that until recently Western approaches, including Post-Colonial, French Social Science and American approaches, have dominated non-Western theories; and that Western theories have sometimes seemed incapable of explaining phenomena produced in other societies. It goes on to argue that the blurring of boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies is very important; and that such a Post-Western approach will mean co-production and co-construction of common knowledge, the recognition of ignored or forgotten scientific cultures and a "global change" in sociology which imposes theoretical and methodological detours, displacements, reversals and conversions. The book brings together a wide range of Western and Chinese sociologists who explore the consequences of this new approach in relation to many different issues and aspects of sociology. </p> <p>Introduction - <i>Doing Post-Western Sociology,</i><b>Part 1: Globalization and Post-Westernization of Sociology, Chapter 1 - </b><i>Post-Western Sociology and Global Revolution, </i><b>Chapter 2 - </b><i>Post-Western Sociology And Contemporary Chinese Sociology, </i><b>Chapter 3 - </b><i>Construction of China’s Sociological Theory, </i><b>Chapter 4 - </b><i>Between Charybdis and Scylla: French Social Thought Faces Globalization, </i><b>Chapter 5 - </b><i>Locations and Locutions : Unravelling the Concept of "World Anthropology", </i><b>Chapter 6- </b><i>Chicago School and his influence in Chinese Sociology, </i><b>Chapter 7 - </b><i>The Globalization of Critical Theories. An Essay in the Sociology of Ideas, </i><b>Part 2 : Sociological traditions in Europe and in China, Chapter 8 - </b><i>Another 30 years: Society Building from the Perspective of Transition Sociology, </i><b>Chapter 9 - </b><i>Social differenciation and dispositional plurality, </i><b>Chapter 10 - </b><i>Back to historical views, reconstructing the sociological imagination: The new tradition of classical and historical studies in the modern Chinese transformation, </i><b>Chapter 11 - </b><i>Returning Back to Space-Based Sociology: Inheriting Professor Fei Hsiao-Tung’s Academic Heritage, </i><b>Chapter 12</b> - <i>A new view on Institution: a neo-durkheimian point of view, </i><b>Chapter 13 - </b><i>Totalitarian Experience and Knowledge Production Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1989, </i><b>Chapter 14 - </b><i>The measurement of Guanxi Circles, </i><b>Part 3 : Modernities, agency and individuation, Chapter 15 - </b><i>How to study the individuals in the South? The Latin-American case, </i><b>Chapter 16 - </b><i>Domination and agency, </i><b>Chapter 17 - </b><i>Understanding Chinese Social Relations from the Perspective of "Guanxi", </i><b>Chapter 18 - </b><i>What makes society Uncertainty an analyser of mutation in France, </i><b>Chapter 19 - </b><i>An Alternative Autonomy: The Self-adaptations of Chinese Sociology in the 1950s, </i><b>Chapter 20 - </b><i>Ethnicity and Individuation</i></p>