Empirical-theoretical explorations on mundialization: cosmopolitanisms, experience and situation

• Grant number: 16/14083-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Wagner Costa Ribeiro
• Grantee: Estevão Mota Gomes Ribas Bosco
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/01178-1 - On the fundamentals of the cosmopolitan social theory: a hermeneutical-sociological approach to cultural globalization, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

The object domain of this research project circumscribes the internal connection between modernization and cosmopolitanism recently established in social theory. The central intention of this connection is to open modernization theory to globalization. In this context, Jürgen Habermas' and Ulrich Beck's theoretical programs are prominent. Despite its innovations, I argue that such widening of the research scope has insufficiencies in the theoretical, methodological and normative spheres. Such insufficiencies come from conceiving modernization only as societal rationalization. Considering applied studies on current cosmopolitanism - concerning the mediatization of the environmental issue, cultural identity, and post-coloniality - two hypotheses are outlined. The first one suggests a concept of experience of mundialization constructed as hermeneutic experience. The second hypothesis suggests a corresponding notion of situation by means of Hans-Georg Gadamer's concept of hermeneutical situation and Alfred Schütz' and Thomas Luckmann's phenomenological concept of situation. The general goal of this proposal is to explore conceptual ways to open social theory to mundialization and cosmopolitanism. The methodological approach distinguishes three successive interpretative stages, and is guided by an empirical-theoretical orientation. This research proposal profits from and debates with fields of knowledge carefully selected from the philosophy of social sciences, sociology, geography, anthropology, political science and postcolonial studies. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BOSCO, ESTEVAO; HARRIS, NEAL. From sociology to social theory: Critical cosmopolitanism, modernity, and post-universalism. INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY, v. 35, n. 6, SI, SEP 2020. (16/14083-3, 18/01178-1)

BOSCO, ESTEVAO; HARRIS, NEAL. From sociology to social theory: Critical cosmopolitanism, modernity, and post-universalism. INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY, v. 35, n. 6, p. 18-pg., 2020-09-10. (18/01178-1, 16/14083-3)