A sociological guilt trip: Comment on Connell  

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Collins, Randall

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 102 no. 06 (May 1997), page 1558-1564.
Topik: Europe; sociology; classical.

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: A13 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The main arguments of "Why Is Classical Theory Classical?" are as follows. (1) Sociology arose out of the concerns and observations of European colonial empires, which led to the concepts of progress, evolution, and the primitive/modern contrast. (2) For all the evils of this beginning, early sociology had at least a central concern for gender and race, later forgotten. (3) These concerns broke down because of World War I, with the shift of sociology's center to the United States and to concerns for inequality and disorder in urban society. (4) Because this empirical work failed to legitimate itself, a classical canon was adopted. The polemical power of the article stems from the first two points. Sociology's history is doubly tainted because its true origin is nothing more than the imperial gaze, the self-glorification of European "progress" at the expense of subjugating the nonwhite parts of the world and because the later establishment of a canon is intellectual dishonesty, preventing us from confessing how imperialist we really are.

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