"Where are you really from?" Notes on the social sciences and the "crisis of the homogenous society"
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Published
10-11-2015
Silvia Rodríguez Maeso
Abstract
Building on Alfonso Pérez-Agote's work on the formation and "crisis" of the "presumed homogeneity" of modern Western societies, this text questions the limits of the social sciences and, particularly, of hegemonic sociological frameworks to interpret this "crisis" and the related social change. More specifically, it interrogates the place of race in sociological thinking as a crucial analytical approach for challenging hegemonic narratives of modernity, of nation-state formation and the construction of the idea of Europe. It is argued that the understanding of the so-called current "crisis of multiculturalism" or "crisis of immigrant integration", requires giving centrality to the renewal of the racial contract as the political engineering of belonging to Europeanness.
How to Cite
Rodríguez Maeso, S. (2015). "Where are you really from?" Notes on the social sciences and the "crisis of the homogenous society". Papeles De Identidad, 2015(3), papel 138. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.15069
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Keywords
social sciences, Europe, homogeneity, race
Section
Single Topic Issues
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