Afrocentric Social Thought: Rethinking Sociology in Africa
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2019
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College Press. Lead city university, Ibadan
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In chapter one, the reader is introduced to classical sociologists as the 19th century founding fathers of Sociology. It is argued that most of these sociologists regarded the discipline as a positivist and universal science of society. However, the problem with this narrative is that it tends to undermine the applicability of Sociology in specific socio-cultural contexts (Burawayo, 2016), even though the socio-cultural and political situations of specific societies should determine the intellectual property or contents of Sociology (Go, 2016; Morris, 2015), hence, the need to deconstruct the universalistic basis of Sociology (Morris, 2017). In other words, it has become essential to introduce the notion of particularism to counter the dominance of the doctrine of universalism embedded in the positivist ideology (Steinberg, 2016). What this implies is that there is the need for the entrenchment of indigenous sociologies across different socio-cultural contexts (Adesina, 2002; Omobowale & Akanle, 2017).