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ArticleRationality and society2026

Extending the standards: AI, global sociology, and North-South collaboration.

Fanqi Zeng

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Article in Rationality and society, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Fanqi ZengDepartment of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2233-5947

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aksoy et al. (2026) propose three standards for sociology, the integration of theory and empirics, open science, and a careful relation between scholarship and political action. In this comment, we endorse these standards and argue that two developments, the uneven geography of sociological knowledge and the disciplinary reach of artificial intelligence, call for a wider frame. We propose reciprocal collaboration with researchers in the Global South as a single move that absorbs the disruption from AI, corrects an empirical deficit, and narrows the methodological gap, while extending rather than diluting the standards the statement defends.

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AIanalytical sociologyglobal southknowledge productionopen science

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PMID42553836
PMCPMC13436810

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