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Is It Possible to Have a NON Modern Sociology?

Monday, July 14, 2014: 7:00 PM
Room: 304
Distributed Paper
Fernando CASTAÑEDA SABIDO , Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, México city, Mexico

IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A NON MODERN SOCIOLOGY?

From its origin sociology has been well awere that it has a constitutive paradox. Its main object is modern society, but at the same time sociology is the product of modern society. There has been given many solutions to this problema, as many as sociological theories have been developed.

 This paradox goes side by side with another paradox, modern rationality always implies its counterpart , irrationality.  This idea is also and old argument as well, from romantiism to system theory.

Both paradoxes had have solutions in the way they interpret modern society. Although they are not very successful. 

 The develpoments of socioloy in poscolonial societies, have made their intepretetion of this paradox trying to reinterpret this history. 

 But I dont think they have a solution. The paper is aim at reconstruct some of the arguments of these paradox and to analyse how is reinterpreted by poscolonial sociology.