Paulo Henrique Martins

Recognizing the relevance and importance of dependency theories in the present context implies continuing research that deals with the sociology of intellectuals, the history and circulation of ideas, and the revision of modernization theories in peripheral and semi-peripheral regions. Moreover, this must form part of a broad understanding of modernity and global social processes. But it is important not to generalize the conditions of emergence of such...

Our interest is to address the following question: Can sociology constitute itself as a global phenomenon without considering the diversity of social and cultural contexts and without contributing to the formation of activist intellectuals and mediation networks that make the link between the global and the local? Globalization is not only an economic, financial or technological phenomenon but, perhaps above all, an intellectual process expanded...

Globalization is creating new spaces of knowledge production that are changing the traditional intellectual division of labor dominated by Europe as the privileged center for thinking about modernity. For some authors, such as Arjun Appadurai, the “Third World” no longer functions as a data mill for the “North,” and, as a result, the “North” has lost its hegemony as the producer of ideas for the “South.” In...