Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

✍ Scribed by Syed Farid Alatas, Vineeta Sinha (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 395
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 ‘founding fathers’ 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 book’s global scope fills a significant lacuna and provides a unique teaching resource to students of classical sociological theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Eurocentrism, Androcentrism and Sociological Theory....Pages 1-16
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)....Pages 17-45
Karl Marx (1818–1883)....Pages 47-78
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)....Pages 79-112
Max Weber (1864–1920)....Pages 113-142
José Rizal (1861–1896)....Pages 143-170
Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)....Pages 171-203
Said Nursi (1877–1960)....Pages 205-236
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati (1858–1922)....Pages 237-268
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)....Pages 269-301
Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949)....Pages 303-335
Epilogue....Pages 337-344
Back Matter....Pages 345-391

✦ Subjects

Sociological Theory;Social Theory;Philosophy of the Social Sciences;Imperialism and Colonialism