Ivanov D. V. (2023) Western sociology from an Eastern European perspective (review of the handbook. Titarenko L. G. Modern western sociology. Minsk : RIVSH, 2021. 420 p.)
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Ivanov D.V. Ivanov D. V. (2023) Western sociology from an Eastern European perspective (review of the handbook. Titarenko L. G. Modern western sociology. Minsk : RIVSH, 2021. 420 p.). Science. Culture. Society. 2023. Vol. 29. No. 1. P. 183-188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2023.29.1.14 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The review presents the textbook "Modern western sociology" (Minsk, 2021) by Belarusian sociologist and philosopher L. G. Titarenko. Structure and contents of the handbook are considered from a pint of view of the multiparadigm condition in current sociology and in the context of post-globalization trends. The reviewed work, due to amount of material and to deep analysis, is reaching a level of sophisticated academic textbook. The author analyses main paradigms and theories which define the character of scientific discipline in its modern period covering a century since the 1920s to our days. The book demonstrates very well that Western sociology remains the core of modern sociology as a scientific discipline and that Western sociology is reassessed and modified in local sociological communities being a starting point for the new conceptions of social knowledge, including anti-Western and counter-globalist ones.
Keywords:
western sociology, paradigms, handbook
References
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2. Connell R. Southern theory. The global dynamics of knowledge in social science. Cambridge: Polity Press; 2007. 271 p. ISBN 978-0-7456-4248-2.
3. Comaroff J., Comaroff J. L. Theory from the South. Or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa. Boulder: Paradigm Publ.; 2012. 272 p. ISBN 978-1594517655.
4. Alatas S. F., Sinha V. Sociological theory beyond the canon. London: Palgrave Macmillan; 2017. 401 p. ISBN 978-1137411334.
5. Patel S. (ed.) The ISA handbook of diverse sociological traditions. London: SAGE Publ.; 2010. 384 p. ISBN 978-1847874023
Article
Received: 11.01.2023
Accepted: 31.03.2023
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Ivanov, D. V. (2023). Ivanov D. V. (2023) Western sociology from an Eastern European perspective (review of the handbook. Titarenko L. G. Modern western sociology. Minsk : RIVSH, 2021. 420 p.). Science. Culture. Society, 29(1), 183-188. https://doi.org/10.19181/nko.2023.29.1.14
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