Staff Profiles

 

Alatas, Syed Farid
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Philosophy of Social Science, Sociological Theory, Political Economy.

Teaching Areas

Sociological Theory, Political Economy.

 

Selected Publications
– (with Vineeta Sinha) Teaching Classical Sociological Theory in Singapore: The Context of Eurocentrism, Teaching Sociology (2001) - forthcoming.
– The Study of the Social Sciences in Developing Societies: Towards and Adequate Conceptualization of Relevance, Current Sociology 49,2 (2001) forthcoming.
– Academic Dependency in the Social Sciences: Reflections on India and Malaysia, American Studies International 38, 2 (2000).
– Islam and Socialism: Perspectives from Autonomous Social Science and Occidentalism, Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam. Vol. 2, edited by Helmuth Buchholt and Georg Stauth. (1999).
– Democracy and Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State. Houndmills: Macmillan. 1997.

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