LEADER 03649nam 2200649 450 001 9910823463303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9956-792-21-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000597582 035 $a(EBL)1963739 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001466395 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11892187 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001466395 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11487555 035 $a(PQKB)10666698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1963739 035 $a(OCoLC)905378110 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse45457 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1963739 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11032500 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL732124 035 $a(OCoLC)904209919 035 $a(PPN)187346224 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000597582 100 $a20150328h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnmasking social science imperialism $eglobalization theory as a phase of academic colonialism /$fTatah Mentan 210 1$aBamenda, Cameroon :$cLangaa Research & Publishing CIG,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (442 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-792-20-9 311 $a1-336-00842-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroductory: why social science imperialism? -- Social science, Eurocentrism, Americanization, and imperialism -- Dissecting globalization as a scientific theory -- Globalization theory as repackaged social science imperialism -- Toward de-linking from globalization by the oppressed and exploited -- Epilogue: which way for the oppressed and exploited -- Elusive scientific land of promise -- Road to scientific paradise. 330 $aContemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation of Europe's capitalist world system or imperialism. There is therefore nothing that is natural, logical, or accidental about the institutionalization of the social sciences. These Europeanized structures of knowledge are imposed ways of producing knowledge of the world. This Eurocentrism of social science has justifiably come under increasingly vigorous scrutiny, especially in the period since 1945 with the formal decolonization of Africa, Asia, and much of the Caribbean. This book forcefully argues that if social science is to make any progress in the twenty-first century, it must overcome its Eurocentric heritage that has distorted social analyses and its capacity to deal with the problems of the contemporary world and embrace other non-Western funds of knowledge production. 606 $aGlobalization$xPolitical aspects$zAfrica 606 $aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects$zAfrica 606 $aNeoliberalism$zAfrica 606 $aCapitalism$zAfrica 615 0$aGlobalization$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aNeoliberalism 615 0$aCapitalism 676 $a327.1 700 $aMentan$b Tatah$0616050 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823463303321 996 $aUnmasking social science imperialism$93914302 997 $aUNINA