Positioning Post-Soviet Sociology in Global Sociology: Between the Global South and the Global North.

Sociology in today's world often seeks to internationalise research and globalise problem solving. However, the so-called 'global sociology' is quite some way from being actually global, as it only involves specific regions and communities in the discussion. The voice of other regions, as a rule, is not heard in the established system of connections and positions, and the regions themselves act as passive objects of (re)positioning, which is determined by the needs of specific research carried out by the nominally 'global' community of sociologists. The goal of the current study is to position one of the excluded communities -- post-Soviet sociology -- in global sociology using the North-South analytical framework that is frequently applied in discussions of global academic inequalities. The findings suggest that post-Soviet sociology is positioned closer to the Global South, although significant country-based differences are observed. Post-Soviet sociology is functionally fragmented and disconnected, and this is facilitated by its orientation towards the 'northern' standards of knowledge production, which are professed even to the detriment of originality and independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]