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The Last Positivist

Author(s): Michael Burawoy
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Piotr Sztompka; social sciences; domination; colonialism; imperialism; positivism; sociology of knowledge; ideology; the South

Summary/Abstract: The polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contempo­rary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology. The starting point of discussion between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was the publication entitled Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (Volume One: Introduction, Latin America and Africa, 316 pp.; Volume Two: Asia, 362 pp.; Volume Three: Europe, and Concluding Reflections, 296 pp.), edited by Michael Burawoy, Mau-kuei Chang and Michelle Fei-yu Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica, Council of National Associations of the International Sociological Association & Academia Sinica, 2010).

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 350-363
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish