Alternative View of Modernity: The Subaltern Speaks

IF 7.1 1区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

American Sociological Review Pub Date : 2022-01-06 DOI:10.1177/00031224211065719

Aldon D Morris

引用次数: 14

Abstract

This article derives from my 2021 ASA presidential address. I examine how sociologists including Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and white American sociologists have omitted key determinants of modernity in their accounts of this pivotal development in world history. Those determinants are white supremacy, western empires, racial hierarchies, colonization, slavery, Jim Crow, patriarchy, and resistance movements. This article demonstrates that any accounts omitting these determinants will only produce an anemic and misleading analysis of modernity. The central argument maintains that the sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois developed a superior analysis of modernity by analytically centering these determinants. I conclude by making a case for the development of an emancipatory sociology in the tradition of Du Boisian critical sociological thought.

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现代性的另类观点:次等人的话语

这篇文章来源于我2021年ASA主席的演讲。我研究了包括卡尔·马克思、埃米尔·涂尔干、马克斯·韦伯和美国白人社会学家在内的社会学家，在他们对世界历史上这一关键发展的描述中，是如何忽略了现代性的关键决定因素的。这些决定因素是白人至上、西方帝国、种族等级、殖民、奴隶制、吉姆·克劳、父权制和抵抗运动。本文表明，任何忽略这些决定因素的解释只会产生对现代性的贫血和误导性分析。中心论点认为，社会学家W. E. B.杜波依斯通过集中分析这些决定因素，对现代性进行了卓越的分析。最后，我为杜波依斯批判社会学思想传统中解放社会学的发展提出了一个案例。

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American Sociological Review SOCIOLOGY-

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13.30

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3.30%

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