• ISBN13: 9780367444792
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2018
• Pages: 348
• Original Price: GBP 41.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 486 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Sociology / General, and Regional Studies

This book is rooted in an epistemological approach to sociology in which the boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies are acknowledged and built on. It argues that knowledge is organised in conceptual spaces linked to paradigms and programmes which in turn are linked to ethnocentred knowledge processes; that until recently Western approaches, including Post-Colonial, French Social Science and American approaches, have dominated non-Western theories; and that Western theories have sometimes seemed incapable of explaining phenomena produced in other societies. It goes on to argue that the blurring of boundaries between Western and non-Western sociologies is very important; and that such a Post-Western approach will mean co-production and co-construction of common knowledge, the recognition of ignored or forgotten scientific cultures and a "global change" in sociology which imposes theoretical and methodological detours, displacements, reversals and conversions. The book brings together a wide range of Western and Chinese sociologists who explore the consequences of this new approach in relation to many different issues and aspects of sociology.

Laurence Roulleau-Berger is a sociologist and Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École Nationale Supérieure (ENS) Lyon, Triangle, France

Li Peilin is Professor of Sociology at and Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing