Alternative discourses in Asian social science : responses to Eurocentrism / Syed Farid Alatas.
By: Syed Farid Alatas.
Publisher: New Delhi ;Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2006Description: 226 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0761934405 (hbk.).Subject(s): Social sciences -- Asia
| Social sciences -- Philosophy | Eurocentrism | OrientalismDDC classification: 300.95 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Remark |
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| 300.92 ERN Ernest Gellner and contemporary social thought / | 300.92 MAX 2012 Max Weber : | 300.92241 STO 2009 Some British empiricists in the social sciences, 1650-1900 / | 300.95 SYE Alternative discourses in Asian social science : | 301 Socialization | 301 Religion, work and inequality | 301 Contemporary social theory : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-216) and index.
The central problem of the social sciences in Asia: critique, diagnosis and prescription -- Theorizing the state of the social sciences -- The structure of academic dependency and the global division of labour in the social sciences -- The definition and variety of alternative discourses in Asia -- Nativist or autonomous social science: a clash of orientations -- Towards an adequate conceptualization of relevance and irrelevance in the social sciences -- Alternative discourses and power -- Rethinking the teaching of the social sciences -- The prospects and future of alternative discourses in Asia.