Historical Sociology, Modernity, and Postcolonial Critique

Modernity is one of the central concepts of sociology, with sociology itself frequently as emerging as a modern form of reflection upon associated processes. The sociological understanding of modernity typically rests on of the modern world emerging out of the processes of economic and political located in Europe and underpinned by the cultural changes brought about the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution. Such an understanding Europe with modernity and renders the process of becoming modern, at in the first instance, one of endogenous European development. Coterminous this argument is the idea that the rest of the world was external to these worldhistorical and that colonial connections and processes were insignificant their development.