The future of sociology can be viewed in different ways. One possible scenario is its fragmentation into regional ‘sociologies.’ Potential consequences of such a fragmentation are exclusion of ‘other’ sociologies and ignorance of them. The paper presents a view of post-Soviet sociology as a version of ‘another sociology’, i.e., a pattern of sociology that differs in some important theoretical and methodological aspects from the Western sociological mainstream. Several arguments support the existence of this tendency: the specific social problems of the population in the post-Soviet region, the different post-Soviet culture and everyday life, the dominance of Slavic languages, and the poor knowledge of English, to mention a few. Erosion of the post-Soviet experience and neglect of this region as a special one may lead sociology to develop a discrepancy between real societal needs and the social knowledge derived from the dominant Western social theory.
Titarenko Larissa. Post-Soviet Sociology as a Pattern of 'Another Sociology', in: D.Kalekin-Fishman, A.Denis (eds.) Tradition and Renewal: the Shape of Sociology for the Twenty-First Century. London: Sage, 2011.