What Counts as Sociological Knowledge? Curricular Path Dependence in Undergraduate Sociology in Pakistan

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  • Imran Sabir ,Abida Sharif ,Aneeqa Ansari ,Laila Hussain

Keywords:

sociology curriculum; sociology of knowledge; higher education; decolonizing sociology; curriculum analysis; Pakistan; social sciences

Abstract

Curricula are institutional maps of legitimateknowledge. They specify what a discipline regards asfoundational, what it treats as peripheral, and whatkinds of intellectual and practical capacities a graduateis expected to possess. This article examines the undergraduate sociology curriculum in Pakistanthrough a comparative content analysis of seven BSSociology schemes in force between

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Published

2023-02-15

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Imran Sabir ,Abida Sharif ,Aneeqa Ansari ,Laila Hussain. (2023). What Counts as Sociological Knowledge? Curricular Path Dependence in Undergraduate Sociology in Pakistan. Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 13(2), 482–492. Retrieved from https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/5326

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2023): PEGEGOG

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