Overview
This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including chapters on both the æfounding fathersÆ of sociology and neglected thinkers it highlights the biases of Eurocentrism and androcentrism, while also offering much-needed correctives to them. The authors challenge a dominant account of the development of sociological theory which would have us believe that it was only Western European and later North American white males in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who thought in a creative and systematic manner about the origins and nature of the emerging modernity of their time. This integrated and contextualised account seeks to restructure the ways in which we theorise the emergence of the classical sociological canon. This bookÆs global scope fills a significant lacuna and provides a unique teaching resource to students of classical sociological theory.
- | Author: Syed Farid Alatas, Vineeta Sinha
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Jun 07, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 401 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
- | ISBN-10: 1137411333
- | ISBN-13: 9781137411334
