De l’épistémologie à l’épistémicide : le sociologue face au déni de scientificité des savoirs endogènes

Abstract The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the scientificity of endogenous knowledge that has been marginalized in scientific production. In doing so, with a sovereignist approach and an analysis of documents, he informs on the inadequacies of the positivist epistemology of the north and demonstrates, unlike the proponents of the decolonial theory, that the south, through its endogenous knowledge, constitutes a laboratory where the literature (oral and written), structured around paremies and Sufi writings, makes it possible to account for the importance of the local-endogenous context in the formation of the scientific mind. This makes science a social construct. Keywords: sovereignist approach, social construct, positivist epistemology, endogenous knowledge, scientificity