Qualitative Social Research and Transregional Theory-Building in the Context of Global Sociologies

全球社会学背景下的定性社会研究和跨区域理论构建

• 批准号: 452021398
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Marian Burchardt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Methoden und methodologische Grundlagen der Sozialwissenschaften (IMMS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Scientific Networks
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/452021398?language=en
• 关键词: Qualitative; Social; Research; Transregional; Theory

The network seeks to examine and strengthen the role of qualitative social research in societies of the Global South in processes of general sociological theory-building. The ongoing dominance of Western sociological theories has been thoroughly critiqued, chiefly in the field of postcolonial theory. However, the visibility of qualitative studies in the Global South in processes of sociological theorization is still limited and they are rarely systematically confronted with the canon of Western theories. Made up of sociologists from Africa, Latin America, Asia and Germany, the members of the network conduct systematic comparisons of research findings from selected fields of sociological research and of theoretical approaches from diverse regional contexts. Thereby, they contribute to the development of reflexive sociological concepts and theories and advance the agenda of global sociology in the German sociological landscape. We focus on three fields: health, gender and sexuality (1), family and biography (2) as well as urbanism, space and architecture (3). We assume that these fields are especially apt to reveal processes of social change from a transregional theoretical perspective as well as regional similarities and differences.The network brings together sociologists who do research in societies of the Global South, are specialized in one or more of the named fields and are theoretically committed to questions of global sociology. In five workshops, members address the following questions: What are the differences and similarities of qualitative social research in different world regions? How can different approaches be interlinked and research findings made comparable? Which concepts and theories turn out to be regionally specific and which ones as more or less universally applicable? Which procedures to construct and identify shared problem spaces, borne among other things by globalization, appear useful? Which (non)Western theoretical approaches have explanatory potentials beyond their context of origin? In which ways can Western and non-Western theoretical approaches be adapted? How does sociological theory-building respond to the postcolonial challenge?

该网络旨在审查和加强定性社会研究在全球南方社会中在一般社会学理论构建过程中的作用。西方社会学理论的持续主导地位受到了彻底的批评，主要是在后殖民理论领域。然而，南半球国家的定性研究在社会学理论化过程中的知名度仍然有限​​，而且很少系统地面对西方理论的经典。该网络的成员由来自非洲、拉丁美洲、亚洲和德国的社会学家组成，对社会学研究选定领域的研究成果和不同区域背景的理论方法进行系统比较。因此，他们为反思性社会学概念和理论的发展做出了贡献，并推进了德国社会学领域的全球社会学议程。我们专注于三个领域：健康、性别和性 (1)、家庭和传记 (2) 以及城市化、空间和建筑 (3)。我们假设这些领域特别容易从跨区域理论角度以及区域异同揭示社会变迁过程。该网络汇集了在南半球社会进行研究的社会学家，他们专门研究一个或多个指定领域，并在理论上致力于全球社会学问题。在五个研讨会中，成员们讨论了以下问题：世界不同地区定性社会研究的差异和相似之处是什么？如何将不同的方法相互关联并使研究结果具有可比性？哪些概念和理论具有区域性特征，哪些概念和理论或多或少具有普遍适用性？哪些程序可以用来构建和识别全球化所带来的共享问题空间？哪些（非）西方理论方法具有超出其起源背景的解释潜力？西方和非西方的理论方法可以在哪些方面进行调整？社会学理论构建如何应对后殖民挑战？