Rethinking Modernity

1. Introduction: Postcolonialism, Sociology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Gurminder K. Bhambra

Part 1. Sociology and Its Historiography

2. Modernity, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Critique
Gurminder K. Bhambra

3. European Modernity and the Sociological Imagination
Gurminder K. Bhambra

4. From Modernization to Multiple Modernities: Eurocentrism Redux
Gurminder K. Bhambra

Part 2. Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Connected Histories

5. Myths of European Cultural Integrity — The Renaissance
Gurminder K. Bhambra

6. Myths of the Modern Nation-State — The French Revolution
Gurminder K. Bhambra

7. Myths of Industrial Capitalism — The Industrial Revolution
Gurminder K. Bhambra

8. Conclusion: Sociology and Social Theory After Postcolonialism – Towards a Connected Historiography
Gurminder K. Bhambra

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Theory, Social History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Historiography and Method, Popular Science in Education