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Academic Dependency In The Social Sciences: Reflections On India And Malaysia, Syed Farid Alatas
Academic Dependency In The Social Sciences: Reflections On India And Malaysia, Syed Farid Alatas
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Always. 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 meta theory that I focus on in this essay is the political economy of the social sciences, with reference to the cases of India and Malaysia.