POUR UN MODÈLE CENTRE- PÉRIPHÉRIE DANS LES SCIENCES SOCIALES

• Published in: Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances
• Main Author: Keim, Wiebke
• Other Authors: Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe (SAGE), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: History of the social sciences; International sociology; North-South relations; Center-Periphery; Scientific development; Counter-hegemony; Eurocentrism; [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences; [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01076993; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01076993/document; https://shs.hal.science/halshs-01076993/file/keim_RAC_2010.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3917/rac.011.0570

International audience For a Centre-Periphery Model in the Social Sciences. Problematic aspects of international relations in the Social SciencesThis paper deals with global hierarchies and inequalities in the production and diffusion of sociological knowledge in a North-South perspective. A centre-periphery-model is proposed in order to apprehend these inequalities. The explanation of the worldwide unequal distribution of the social sciences has to be a historical one in the first place: The modern social sciences emerged in Europe first. Their exogenous origin in the countries of the South represents a problem at several levels until today. The conceptualisation of a centre-periphery-model allows for an analytical distinction of three dimensions: the dimension of infrastructure and internal organization remains strongly determined by extra-academic factors, whereas the dimension of conditions of existence and reproduction and the dimension of international position and recognition refer to intra-academic problems. Some empirical indicators regarding the dimension of marginality are presented. If it appears relevant to establish a centre-periphery-model in order to apprehend the structures in international sociology, it is also very important to highlight, in a more optimistic perspective, diverse developments that challenge the historical hegemony of north-atlantic approaches today. Cet article a pour objet les inégalités et les hiérarchies globales dans la production et la diffusion des connaissances sociologiques dans une perspective Sud-Nord. Il propose un modèle centre-péri-phérie pour appréhender ces inégalités. L'explication de l'inégale distribution doit avoir en premier lieu un caractère historique : les sciences sociales modernes ont émergé d'abord en Europe. Leur origine exogène dans les pays du Sud pose encore aujourd'hui des problèmes à plusieurs niveaux. La conceptualisation proposée d'un modèle centre-périphérie permet d'en distinguer analyti-quement trois dimensions : la dimension de ...