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Nominal Openness and Epistemic Endogamy in ‘Global’ and ‘Provincialized’ Sociologies.
- Source :
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Sociology . Jun2015, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p539-555. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Calls for global and provincialized sociologies have emerged in the last decade as thoughtful projects in contemporary sociology. In this article, I criticize the rhetorical nature and epistemic endogamy of some of those calls through case studies of sociologies in Mexico and their institutional and epistemic complexity. Avoiding reductionisms, I will characterize sociologies in Mexico as both central (mainly Westernized) and (semi)peripheral. From a critical stance, I will argue that the latter are constructed upon teleological, prescriptive and pragmatic-theory logics and constitute epistemologically legitimate (professional) sociologies, given their logics’ internal cognitive affinity and the consistency these logics present in relation to external ideological structures and socio-political discourses. I will then make explicit some of the theoretical and disciplinary challenges these overlooked professional sociologies bring to the fore. I conclude by suggesting a postcolonial theoretical-methodological strategy to address such challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *EPISTEMICS
*GENERAL semantics
*ENDOGAMY & exogamy
*MARRIAGE
*SOCIOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00380385
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 103026951
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514546664