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World–Systems Analysis – An Introduction: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Autor Immanuel Wallerstein
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2004

In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world. Since Wallerstein first developed world-systems analysis, it has become a widely utilized methodology within the historical social sciences and a common point of reference in discussions of globalization. Now, for the first time in one volume, Wallerstein offers a succinct summary of world-systems analysis and a clear outline of the modern world-system, describing the structures of knowledge upon which it is based, its mechanisms, and its future.Wallerstein explains the defining characteristics of world-systems analysis: its emphasis on world-systems rather than nation-states, on the need to consider historical processes as they unfold over long periods of time, and on combining within a single analytical framework bodies of knowledge usually viewed as distinct from one another-such as history, political science, economics, and sociology.

He describes the world-system as a social reality comprised of interconnected nations, firms, households, classes, and identity groups of all kinds. He identifies and highlights the significance of the key moments in the evolution of the modern world-system: the development of a capitalist world-economy in the sixteenth-century, the beginning of two centuries of liberal centrism in the French Revolution of 1789, and the undermining of that centrism in the global revolts of 1968. Intended for general readers, students, and experienced practitioners alike, this book presents a complete overview of world-systems analysis by its original architect.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822334422
ISBN-10: 0822334429
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 152 x 236 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Locul publicării:United States

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"Immanuel Wallerstein's mind can reach as far and encompass as much as anyone's in our time. The world, to him, is a vast, integrated system, and he makes the case for that vision with an elegant and almost relentless logic. But he also knows that to see as he does requires looking through a very different epistemological lens than the one most of us are in the habit of using. So his gift to us is not just a new understanding of how the world works but a new way of apprehending it. A brilliant work on both scores."--Kai Erikson, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies, Yale University


Cuprins

Acknowledgments vii
To Start: Understanding the World in Which We Live ix
1. Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis: From Social Science Disciplines to Historical Social Sciences 1
2. The Modern World-System as a Capitalist World-Economy: Production, Surplus-Value, and Polarization 23
3. The Rise of the States-System: Sovereign Nation-States, Colonies, and the Interstate System 41
4. The Creation of a Geoculture: Ideologies, Social Movements, Social Science 60
5. The Modern World-System in Crisis: Bifurcation, Chaos, and Choices 76
Glossary 91
Bibliographical Guide 101
Index 105

Notă biografică

Immanuel Wallerstein is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University and Director of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. Among his many books are "The Modern World-System "(three volumes); "The End of the World as We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-first Century";" Utopistics: Or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century";" and Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms." He is the recipient of the American Sociological Association's Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and is a former president of the International Sociological Association.