Sociology in the Global South: Teaching, Training, and Practice. Historic and Current Trends

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 09:00-10:45
Location: SJES023 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
TG09 Sociological Teaching (host committee)
RC08 History of Sociology

Language: English and Spanish

Recurrently, what we call Sociology (in the singular) has referred almost exclusively to what is produced in the Global North. However, there has been a growing movement to broaden the understanding of Sociology by emphasizing its history and dynamics in the Global South. In this session, we highlight three dimensions of Sociology in the Global South: a) the teaching of this discipline at all educational levels, from secondary to higher education, emphasizing the specific challenges teachers and professors confront in each of these contexts; b) specialized training in Sociology, i.e. how sociologists are trained in under and graduate levels in the Global South, the formative models (academic vs. vocational), and the disciplinary ecology in which this training is embedded––what is the relationship of sociology with neighboring disciplines; c) the professional practices of sociologists beyond academia and how they mobilize their expertise in different institutions (state agencias, private corporations, social movements, NGO, etc.)
Session Organizers:
Amurabi OLIVEIRA, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil and Juan Pedro BLOIS, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina
Chair:
Amurabi OLIVEIRA, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Co-Chair:
Marcelo CIGALES, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Oral Presentations
Sociology and Social Sciences in India: Connections and Closures
Manish THAKUR, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
On Decolonial Debates in the Arab World: Reflections on One Year of Teaching in the Global South
Dina TAHA, Assistant Professor, Qatar
Between Politics and Profits: Private Sociology Classes in Iran
Zohreh BAYATRIZI, University of Alberta, Canada; Reyhaneh JAVADI, University of Alberta, Canada
Problemas y Desafíos Epistemológicos, Pedagógicos y Didácticos a La Hora De Enseñar La Historia De La Sociología En Perspectiva Latinoamericana.
Diego PEREYRA, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, Argentina
Studying Sociology in Brazil: The Eternal Challenges
Jacob Carlos LIMA, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil; Helena BOMENY, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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