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Article: Academic Dependency in the Social Sciences: Reflections on India and Malaysia.
- Article from:
- American Studies International
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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The study of the social sciences can be approached in a variety of ways. Various types of meta-analyses exist, and concerns range from the epistemological to the empirical. Metatheory, or the reflexive study of the social sciences, involves the study of the social, cultural and historical contexts of theories and theorists, and their philosophical roots. The particular variety of metatheory that I focus on in this essay is the political economy of the social sciences, with reference to the cases of India and Malaysia.
In what follows, I introduce the topic by way of a discussion of the relevance of the social sciences to developing societies, after which I move ...