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Sociology is based on a conventional view of the emergence of modernity and the ‘rise of the West’. This privileges mainstream Euro-centred histories. Most sociological accounts of modernity, for example, neglect broader issues of colonialism and empire. They also fail to address the role of forced labour alongside free labour, issues of dispossession and settlement, and the classification of societies and peoples by their ‘stages of development’. The Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project responds to these challenges by providing resources for the reconstruction of the curriculum in the light of new connected histories and their associated connected sociologies. The project is designed to support the transformation of school, college, and university curricula through a critical engagement with the broader histories that have shaped modern societies.
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Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Modern social theory is a product of the very history it seeks to interpret and explain. In this module, we address the categories that form mainstream sociology in order to reconstruct modern social theory. We focus on five key sociological figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth century – Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Du Bois. Our purpose is to expose the significance of colonialism and empire in the organisation of the thought of these writers and, thereby, in the legacies they bequeath to social theory. Addressing colonial histories is a necessary preliminary to the reconstruction of social theory.
Reading
- Bhambra, Gurminder K. and John Holmwood 2021. ‘Introduction: Colonialism, Historiography, and Modern Social Theory’ in Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity
- Connell, R. W. 1997. ‘Why Is Classical Theory Classical?’ American Journal of Sociology 102 (6): 1511-1557
- Mamdani, Mahmood 2018. ‘The African University,’ London Review of Books Vol. 40 No. 14
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