00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861482263 Buklod 20250618142441.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 250618s2006 xx r |||1 u|eng d 0761934405 (hard back) (iLib)UPBAG-00001024614 BC-54997 Php3,600.00 DLC BAG rda eng H 53 A78 A42 Alatas, Farid Syed author. Alternative discourses in Asian social science responses to Eurocentrism Syed Farid Alatas. New Delhi Sage 2006. 226 pages 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages [196]-216) and index. SaThe central problem of the social sciences in Asia: critique, diagnosis and prescription -- Theorizing the state of the social sciences -- The structure of academic dependency and the global division of labour in the social sciences -- The definition and variety of alternative discourses in Asia -- Nativist or autonomous social science: a clash of orientations -- Towards an adequate conceptualization of relevance and irrelevance in the social sciences -- Alternative discourses and power -- Rethinking the teaching of the social sciences -- The prospects and future of alternative discourses in Asia. Social sciences Asia. Social sciences Philosophy. Eurocentrism. Orientalism. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN H 53 A78 A42 Book