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

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 panel, 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.)