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UNINA9910252704003321 |
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Autore |
Alatas Syed Farid |
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Titolo |
Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon / / by Syed Farid Alatas, Vineeta Sinha |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (X, 391 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociology |
Social sciences—Philosophy |
Philosophy and social sciences |
Imperialism |
Sociological Theory |
Social Theory |
Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
Imperialism and Colonialism |
History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1: Introduction -- 2: Ibn Khaldun -- 3: Karl Marx -- 4: Harriet Martineau -- 5: Max Weber -- 6: Jose Rizal -- 7: Emile Durkheim -- 8: Said Nursi -- 9: Pandita Ramabai Saraswati -- 10: Florence Nightingale -- 11: Benoy Kumar Sarkar -- 12: Epilogue.-. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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