Toward an Emancipatory Sociology: Abandoning Universalism for True Indigenisation

Sociology conceived of and practised as a universalistic science in the positivistic tradition turns people into passive objects suitable for manipulation by centralised bureaucratic apparatuses. Fully indigenised sociology, by contrast, seeks to restore people as creators of knowledge and agents of social change. This conception of sociology returns science to the people and assists them in bringing about a new world that is as different from post-Renaissance Europe as the latter was from the Middle Ages.