The European point of view is founded on concepts derived from European philosophical traditions and popular discourse which were gradually applied to the empirical study of history, economy, and society, giving rise to the various social science disciplines including sociology. The empirical field of investigation is selected according to European criteria of relevance.
Constructions of history and society are based on European derived categories and concepts, as well as ideal and material interests. Generally, the point of view of the Other is not presented Tibawi , ; Tibawi 5, 13, 16— There was concern with the phenomenon of Eurocentrism before the term itself came into usage in the nineteenth century among thinkers living in colonial societies.
The first sociologist to critique the dominance of Eurocentric constructions was probably the Indian Benoy Kumar Sarkar — , who wrote against the prevailing Indology of his time, noting its one sided emphasis on the idealistic, mystical, and metaphysical aspects of Hinduism Sarkar []. One of the first among the Dutch in particular, and Europeans in general, to raise the problem of Eurocentrism in the social sciences was Jacob Cornelis van Leur , For example, he questioned the appropriateness of the eighteenth century as a category in the history of the Netherlands Indies, as it was a category borrowed from western history Van Leur, nevertheless, was himself Eurocentric in several of his pronouncements and remarks.
Joseph Needham wrote on the basic fallacy of Europocentrism, namely, the view of the universality of European culture Needham []: 13— The traits of Eurocentrism as manifested in sociology and other social sciences include 1 the subject—object dichotomy; 2 the fore grounding of Europeans; 3 the view of Europeans as originators; 4 the imposition of European categories and concepts; and 5 the view of the objective superiority of European civilization.
The subject—object dichotomy: Europeans are the knowing subjects while non Europeans remain as unheard objects whose standpoints are conveyed only through the agency of Europeans. Non Europeans are passive, non participating, non active, non autonomous, and non sovereign Abdel Malek —8. Rather, it was Flaubert who spoke for her Said 6.
These constructions had come under attack at three levels — they do not fit empirical reality; they overabstract, resulting in the erasure of empirical variety; and they are founded on European prejudices Wallerstein 8.
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This variant was sidelined because we see it as an analytic conclusion that we can reach through the results of our research, rather than as a condition whose existence is assumed prior to proving our hypothesis Having excluded those variants which we felt compromised clarity in our project, we were left with a definition of Eurocentrism made up of its ontological, utilitarian, and ethical applications.
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