Recent discussions of the epistemological and political implications of the situatedness of knowledge in International Relations (IR) have raised important questions regarding the future development of the discipline. They pose the challenge of understanding under what conditions human beings develop more or less reality-congruent knowledge about world politics and what are the implications of such knowledge for emancipatory political activity. This article argues that process sociology should be understood as a relevant complement to these discussions. Assuming a fundamentally ‘realist’ orientation, process sociology provides a sociologically informed analysis of the material, ideational and emotional forces shaping the development of knowledge. As such, it can help those concerned with the implications of the situatedness of knowledge in IR reinforce their capacity to both understand the social conditions under which it is possible to develop more detached and reality-congruent knowledge about the world and better identify and explain the historically emergent values that should orientate the emancipatory transformation of world politics.

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国际关系中的现实一致性、解放政治和情境知识：一个过程社会学视角

最近关于国际关系 (IR) 中知识情境的认识论和政治影响的讨论提出了有关该学科未来发展的重要问题。它们提出了理解人类在什么条件下发展或多或少与现实一致的世界政治知识以及这些知识对解放政治活动的影响的挑战。本文认为，过程社会学应该被理解为这些讨论的相关补充。假设从根本上是“现实主义”取向，过程社会学提供了对塑造知识发展的物质、观念和情感力量的社会学信息分析。因此，