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

Fanqi Zeng, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford

Rationality and Society

Published online on June 25, 2026

Abstract

Rationality and Society, Ahead of Print.
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, ...