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Title:Sociology, Endogeneity and the Challenge of Transformation
Author:Adésínà, Olújìmí O.ISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332)
Volume:10
Issue:2
Pages:133-150
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:South Africa
Southern Africa
Africa
Subjects:sociology
epistemology
Bibliography/Research
Ethnic and Race Relations
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/afrisocirevi.10.2.133
Abstract:The developments in sociological scholarship in Africa and the global South offer compelling illustrations in addressing the challenges of contents and curriculum transformation. In this inaugural lecture, delivered on 16 August 2006 at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, the author addresses these dimensions of critical sociological thinking. This involves 'provincializing Europe', in the sense of acknowledging the idiographic or particularity of Western thoughts rather than treating them as universal or nomothetic, while opening up the diversity of African libraries - textual, oral, archaeological, etc. - to the wider world. This requires endogeneity. A central concern is how to do sociology which is meaningful to Africans and their contexts, especially those done with epistemic intent. An example is the use of African ontological narratives as source-codes for sociology. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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