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| Author(s): |
Bosco, Estevao
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Harris, Neal
Total Authors: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY; v. 35, n. 6, p. 18-pg., 2020-09-10. |
| Abstract | |
This article focuses on the critical cosmopolitan aim of transcending sociology's provincial outlook, which mistakenly universalizes Western societies' historical experiences and normative aspirations. The authors argue that a change in perspective, from sociology to social theory, is crucial in this regard. While a sociological inflection carries a primary investment in the analysis of changes cosmopolitanism brings to the social world, social theory addresses the ontological and epistemological features that these changes precipitate. To demonstrate this, the authors offer a condensed reconstruction of critical cosmopolitan sociology, presenting Beck's foundational formulation, outlining three main criticisms it faces and alternative programs stemming from them, and demonstrating how Delanty's immanent-transcendent approach overcomes these limitations. To conclude, the authors address a crucial onto-epistemological challenge facing contemporary cosmopolitan scholarship, namely, how to mediate between the particular and the universal. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/01178-1 - On the fundamentals of the cosmopolitan social theory: a hermeneutical-sociological approach to cultural globalization |
| Grantee: | Estevão Mota Gomes Ribas Bosco |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/14083-3 - Empirical-theoretical explorations on mundialization: cosmopolitanisms, experience and situation |
| Grantee: | Estevão Mota Gomes Ribas Bosco |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |