MODERNITÀ E MODERNIZZAZIONE NELLA COLONIALITÀ DEL SAPERE SOCIOLOGICO Il contributo delle semiperiferie e periferie dell’Europa

Sociological knowledge of modernity and modernization elaborated in the Western area and the Global North has been criticized by various sources and disciplines. In this article I consider the critical discourse of the so-called “peripheries and semi-peripheries of Europe”, in which theoretical tools and methods adopted and developed in Western Europe are questioned. In post-Soviet societies, which have experienced a road to modernity and modernization absolutely singular compared to our own, sociological knowledge has also developed original trajectories, while partially sharing a common starting heritage. In light of the major transformations in the contemporary world, Eastern sociology could offer us alternative categories for understanding the phenomena we face with inadequate conceptual tools.