Area and International Studies: Sociology
Area studies and sociology constitute two overlapping academic communities with differing sets of assumptions and criteria for evaluating scholarship. Area studies scholars evaluate sociological research for its contribution to substantive knowledge of the area, and its ability to provide interpretive frameworks that clarify social patterns and social processes. Area studies training emphasizes language as a basic research tool and an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach, but pays less attention to the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of individual disciplines. By contrast, sociological training emphasizes theory and methods. The aim of sociological research is to contribute to the developing body of sociological theory; hence sociology views area studies knowledge as a resource for pursuing theoretical ideas through systematic comparative analysis. As sociological theories fall in and out of favor, or conditions in the area change, different area studies issues may gain new sociological relevance. While the differences between area and international studies and sociology make it difficult for the individual scholar to meet the standard of both fields, sociology is international in scope and increasingly accommodates area and international research on its own terms.
Area and International Studies: SociologyArea studies and sociology constitute two overlapping academic communities with differing sets of assumptions and criteria for evaluating scholarship. Area studies scholars evaluate sociological research for its contribution to substantive knowledge of the area, and its ability to provide interpretive frameworks that clarify social patterns and social processes. Area studies training emphasizes language as a basic research tool and an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach, but pays less attention to the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of individual disciplines. By contrast, sociological training emphasizes theory and methods. The aim of sociological research is to contribute to the developing body of sociological theory; hence sociology views area studies knowledge as a resource for pursuing theoretical ideas through systematic comparative analysis. As sociological theories fall in and out of favor, or conditions in the area change, different area studies issues may gain new sociological relevance. While the differences between area and international studies and sociology make it difficult for the individual scholar to meet the standard of both fields, sociology is international in scope and increasingly accommodates area and international research on its own terms.
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