Sociological categories can smuggle Orientalist assumptions into canonical theory

Evidence

However, it has been argued by some social scientists that both Marx’s notion of the “Asiatic” mode of production and Weber’s “patrimonial” form of domination contain traces of, or have been deeply penetrated by, “Orientalist” assumptions. Or, to put it in our terms, both models provide evidence that the discourse of “the West and the Rest” is still at work in some of the conceptual categories, the stark oppositions and the theoretical dualisms of modern sociology. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 675

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core move Hall will use against canonical theorists throughout the West and the Rest framework; connects directly to Orientalism proper as treated in Saidian scholarship that downstream Islamophobia readings assume. — connects to: Social-science methods smuggled Orientalist racism past academic scrutiny — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 261; Modernization theory repackaged Orientalist racism in social-science guise; the MOC “The Wound of the Label: When Knowing Someone Becomes a Way of Erasing Them” (+1 more)
• QUESTION: Which specific ‘stark oppositions and theoretical dualisms’ of modern sociology beyond Weber and Marx carry Orientalist traces — worth tracing into later disciplinary critique literature.