Author : Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Release : 2016-02-15
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 985/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Post-Western Revolution in Sociology by : Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Download or read book Post-Western Revolution in Sociology written by Laurence Roulleau-Berger. This book was released on 2016-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a movement towards the circulation and globalisation of knowledge, new centres and new peripheries form and new hierarchies appear - more or less discretely - producing competition and rivalry in the development of “new” knowledge. Centres of gravity in social sciences have been displaced towards Asia, especially China. We have entered a period of de-westernization of knowledge and co-production of transnational knowledge. This is a scientific revolution in the social sciences which imposes detours, displacements, reversals. It means a turning point in the history of social sciences. From the Chinese experience in sociology the author is opening a Post-Western Space where after Post-Colonial Studies, she is speaking about the emergence of a Post-Western Sociology.