Western and Non-Western Views of the Social and Behavioral Sciences: De-Westernizing the Social and Behavioral Sciences
The expression de-Westernization of the Human and Behavioral Sciences refers to two different trends. First, it designates their diffusion outside their Western context of origins, through the establishment of national universities and disciplines, the migrations of scholars, the internationalization of scientific organizations, etc. In the second sense, it stands for the attempts to create Human and Behavioral Sciences not predicated on Western epistemological frameworks. Theses two trends have developed since the nineteenth century and have led to a wide range of situations, with the assimilation of the Western scientific apparatus being linked to their more or less partial rejection.