Abstract
Kim offers a provocative view on “culturally independent” social science in the form of alternative discourses that can provide more realistic and relevant explanations and interpretations of social phenomena in each society. He does this because he doesn’t solely rely on the theories and methods emanating from the one-sidedly dominant Western academia, but he also draws upon the traditional intellectual resources and utilizes vernacular languages in each society and takes different approaches than those already available in the existing literature. The author illustrates this by introducing the case of indigenization efforts in Korean sociology. He urges that Western social scientists need to accept with an open mind and recognize those alternative discourses produced in non-Western academia for their possible contributions to the enrichment of global scholarship in the relevant disciplines.
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