Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness

IF 3.1 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY Sociology Compass Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI:10.1111/soc4.13253
Stéphane Dufoix
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From the late 18th century onwards, France has delivered a universalistic discourse about politics, society, rights and also science. The emergence of social science largely confirmed this trend. Nowadays the growing challenging of Eurocentrism that has become more and more visible since the early 1990s remains most often untranslated, untaught, uninvestigated and undebated. The disciplinary structure of the university as well as the lingering isolationism of French social science accounts for part of this situation, the latter requires some further explanations. If some opening has recently been visible in the field of gender, race and discriminations, it has usually meant a greater influence of some—White or Black—American anthropologists, sociologist or philosophers, but hardly ever of non‐Western thinkers. The very issue of a social science canon is not even raised. The main reason for this is the weight of French neo‐republicanism as it was born in the early 1990s at the very same time when anti‐Eurocentric alternatives discourses became more widely heard. It results in a persistent denial of these discourses as being scientific and a widespread ignorance of them in the academic field.
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普世主义国度的欧洲中心主义社会科学:法盲入门
从 18 世纪晚期开始,法国在政治、社会、权利以及科学方面发表了普遍主义的论述。社会科学的出现在很大程度上证实了这一趋势。自 20 世纪 90 年代初以来,欧洲中心论受到越来越多的挑战,如今,这种挑战已变得越来越明显。大学的学科结构以及法国社会科学挥之不去的孤立主义是造成这种局面的部分原因,而后者则需要进一步的解释。如果说最近在性别、种族和歧视领域出现了一些突破,那通常意味着一些白人或黑人美国人类学家、社会学家或哲学家的影响更大,但几乎没有非西方思想家的影响。社会科学经典的问题甚至都没有被提出来。造成这种情况的主要原因是法国新共和主义的影响,因为法国新共和主义诞生于 20 世纪 90 年代初,与此同时,反欧洲中心主义的替代论调也开始广为流传。这导致学术界始终否认这些论述的科学性,并普遍对其一无所知。
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