Post-Western Sociologies and Methodological Cosmopolitism: from China to Europe

Journal title MONDI MIGRANTI
Author/s Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/2
Language French Pages 16 P. 7-22 File size 64 KB
DOI 10.3280/MM2014-002001
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We have entered a period of de-Westernization of knowledge and coproduction of the construction of situated knowledge. This is a "global change" in sociology which imposes theoretical and methodological detours, displacements. Through the confrontation of new tendencies of European sociology -especially French Sociology- and Chinese sociology, the symmetries and dissymmetries between different sociological fields, we will investigate the ways in which exchanges, connections and disjunctions are formed between seats of sociological knowledge located in France and in China. So we are speaking about "Post-Western Sociology" which is constructed from connections between different types of situated knowledge's spaces. Instead of conceiving the plurality of provinces of knowledge we will consider methodological cosmopolitanism, continuities and discontinuities between European and Chinese sociologies have to be taken into account so that transnational knowledge may emerge in social sciences, free from all forms of Orientalism.

Keywords: Orientalism, Post-western sociology, Methodological cosmopolitism, Chinese Sociology.

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Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Sociologies post-occidentales et cosmopolitisme méthodologique: de la Chine à l’Europe in "MONDI MIGRANTI" 2/2014, pp 7-22, DOI: 10.3280/MM2014-002001