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1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of the Histories of Sociology

Edited By Andrea Ploder, Nicole Holzhauser, Stephan Moebius Copyright 2027

394 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

The Routledge International Handbook on the Histories of Sociology starts from a simple but powerful conviction: there is not one history of sociology, but a multitude of histories written in different parts of the world, from diverse standpoints, and through different theoretical and methodological lenses. Bringing together 20 scholars from eleven countries, the volume challenges dominant... Read more

Table of Contents

1. From Canon to Connection: (Re)Writing Histories of Sociology

Andrea Ploder, Nicole Holzhauser, and Stephan Moebius

Section I: Writing and Rewriting Histories of Sociology. Methodologies, Theories, and Methods.

2. Reflexive Sociology and History of Sociology: Methodology and Research Programme

Stephan Moebius

3. Rewriting Histories of Sociology from a Feminist Perspective: From Recovery to Rewriting

Patricia Lengermann & Gillian Niebrugge-Brantley

4. Qualitative Rewriting of Disciplinary Histories. Feminist and Postcolonial Orientations

Andrea Ploder & Karin Scaria-Braunstein

5. Quantitative Methods as Reflexive Epistemology for Rewriting Disciplinary Histories

Nicole Holzhauser

Section II: Histories of Sociology Across the Globe

6. Sociology in South Asia: Big Structures, Large Processes, and the Minutiae of Everyday Practice

Maitrayee Chaudhuri

7. Colonialism, Empire and European Sociology

Gurminder K. Bhambra & John Holmwood

8. Sociology in Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Radhamany Sooryamoorthy

9. Colonial Sciences and the History of Sociologies: A Genealogical Perspective

Anne Kwaschik

10. Black Women Sociology: Reclaiming Epistemologies and Rewriting Disciplinary Histories

Kristal S. Johnson

11. Non-Western Epistemologies

Gennaro Ascione

12. Histories of Sociology in East Asia

Hon-Fai Chen

13. Translation and Knowledge Circulation in the History of Sociology

Rafael Y. Schögler

14. Histories of Sociology in South and Central America

Juan Pedro Blois

15. What is (trans-)national in the history of sociology?

Johan Heilbron

16. The Matilda Effect in Action: How Herta Herzog’s Contributions Were Erased from Canonical Narratives

Iside Gjergji

17. Sociologists, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Critique

George Steinmetz

18. Imperialist Decolonizers, Totalitarian Liberals: The Strange History of Sociology in Russia

Mikhail Sokolov

Editor(s)

Biography

Andrea Ploder is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Nicole Holzhauser is a sociologist, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

Stephan Moebius is full Professor for Sociological Theory and Intellectual History at the University of Graz and full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

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