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New Area Studies, Scientific Communities and Knowledge Production
Abstract: In his commentary, Boike Rehbein questions the hegemony that the Global North maintains over the theory and philosophy of science and calls for an epistemological and disciplinary reinvention. The scientific discourse needs to move away from binaries such as global-national and universalism-relativism, as they are misleading in their exclusivity. Rather, Rehbein calls for a multicentric epistemology informed by local sources, perspectives and theories. Area Studies is identified as a key arena of such an epistemological shift, reinventing itself by becoming increasingly comparative and translocal in scope, as well as inter-/trans- or multidisciplinary. In this context, the values and challenges of cooperation in Area Studies are highlighted. Ahsan Kamal praises Rehbein's approach as a concrete contribution to decolonising Area Studies and knowledge production, but urges a constant questioning of the location of the North and South, the authenticity of what is deemed the "local", an
Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies
This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.
Society in Contemporary Laos
This book pursues the theoretical aim of shedding light on the old question raised by Max Weber about the relation between capitalism, (religious) ethos and society. The empirical study consists of a description of the social structures, their embodiment in the habitus and world-views in Laos against the background of a critical revision of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. To achieve these aims, the author develops a qualitative methodology as neither Weber nor Bourdieu explained how to empirically study habitus and ethos.
Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South
After the end of Euro-American hegemony and the return of the multi-centric world, Eurocentrism in philosophy and the social sciences has come under attack. However, no real alternative has been proposed. This provides an opportunity to reassess the philosophy of the social sciences that has been developed in the West. This book argues that the re-emergence of a multi-centric world allows the Euro-centric social sciences in general, and critical theory in particular, to finally disengage from countless paradoxes and impasses by which they have heretofore been hindered. The author presents a solution in the form of the "kaleidoscopic dialectic." This dialectic is unique in that it is able to ...
Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos
The book explores current tendencies of globalization in Laos and offers a theoretical framework for their interpretation.
Inequality in Economics and Sociology
Inequality remains one of the most intensely discussed topics on a global level. As well as figuring prominently in economics, it is possibly the most central topic of sociology. Despite this, there has been no book until now that unites approaches from economics and sociology. Organized thematically, this volume brings international scholars together to offer students and researchers a cutting-edge overview of the core topics of inequality research. Chapters cover: the theoretical traditions in economics and sociology; the global and national structures of inequality in the contemporary world; the main dimensions of inequality (including gender, race, caste, migration, education and poverty); and research methodology. In presenting this overview, Inequality in Economics and Sociology seeks to build a bridge between the disciplines and the approaches. This book offers an encompassing understanding of an increasingly fragmented and highly specialized field of research. It will be invaluable for students and researchers seeking a single repository on the current state of knowledge, current debates and relevant literature in this key area.
Classes, Citizenship and Inequality
Rejecting the obsolete methodology of comparisons between categories,
Inequality in Capitalist Societies
Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that this is due to the lack of understanding the structures responsible for the persistence of social inequality. It enquires into the mechanisms that produce and reproduce invisible dividing lines in society. Based on original case studies of Brazil, Germany, India and Laos comprising thousands of interviews, the authors argue that invisible classes emerge in capitalist societies, both reproducing and transforming precapitalist hierarchies. At the same time, locally particular forms of inequality persist. Social inequality in the contemporary world has to be understood as a specific combination of precapitalist inequalities, capitalist transformation and a particular class structure, which seems to emerge in all capitalist societies. The book links the configurations to an interpretation of global domination as well as to symbolic classification.
Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheit in Deutschland
Boike Rehbein und sein Forschungsteam legen mit dieser Studie die konstitutiven Mechanismen der sozialen Ungleichheit und die dadurch geschaffenen Trennlinien in der deutschen Gesellschaft frei. Auf der Grundlage von über 300 qualitativen Interviews zu Lebensläufen und einer 3.000 Fälle umfassenden repräsentativen Umfrage konnte ermittelt werden, dass die Sozialstruktur Deutschlands durch das Zusammenspiel Jahrhunderte alter Traditionslinien erklärt werden kann: Die Weitergabe von Habitus und Kapital an die jeweils nächste Generation und die unbewusste symbolische Klassifikation sind hierbei entscheidend. Dieses Zusammenspiel wird im Buch analysiert und empirisch illustriert. Schritt für Schritt wird dabei die deutsche Sozialstruktur aufgefächert und erläutert, von historischen Klassenstrukturen über Gender, Migration und institutionelle Selektion bis zur Konstitution von Lebensläufen und Lebensstilen. Dr. Boike Rehbein ist Professor für Gesellschaften Asiens und Afrikas an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
