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Finally, from the perspective of Europe or North America, Africa is often seen as exotic. But we need to accept that the Global South, including Africa, constitutes the greater part of our modern world. Sociological theories developed in Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, like the conventional class theories, cannot be applied world-wide. Only research in other parts of the world will allow us to develop globally relevant theories and concepts. Also the application of more recent concepts developed in one part of the world often in the Global North need to be to be questioned, changed and further developed, as the modification of the concepts used for the new analytic framework show.
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Neubert, D. (2019). Conclusion. In: Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa. Frontiers of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17111-7_9
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