Non Exemplary Sociology Lab

Theoretical-methodological politics

Dialogues with Southern sociologies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, actor-network theory and social studies of science.

The group is inspired by and seeks intense dialogue with several theoretical-methodological and political movements within and beyond sociology, such as Southern sociologies, postcolonial, subaltern and decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, actor-network theory and social studies of science. In them we find fundamental critiques of hegemonic narratives centered on terms such as modernity, rationalization, secularization, proletarianization and development that dominate sociology and the social sciences today. From this dialogue emerge the following challenges:

  1. Developing a sharp critique of the hegemonic production of knowledge in social sciences

  2. Not considering that the social world is given, but that it is produced by our research and theories

  3. Subverting research objects stabilized by classical and contemporary theories

  4. Creating alternative research methods that allow the emergence of new objects

  5. Creating and enabling agency for research objects defined by heterogeneity and not by singularity

  6. Establishing symmetrical dialogue with the social sciences produced beyond Euro-America