Key essays from the "prolific, provocative, 'big-picture theorist'" (Booklist) and originator of world-systems analysis. Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his generation. Past president of the International Sociological Association, he has had a major influence on the development of social thought throughout the world, and his books are translated into every major language. The Essential Wallerstein brings together for the first time the full range of his scholarship.This comprehensive collection of essays offers a unique overview of this seminal thinker's work, showing the development of his thought: from his groundbreaking research on contemporary African politics and social change, to his study of the modern world-system, to his current essays on the new structures of knowledge emerging from the crisis of the capitalist world-economy. His singular focus on the way in which change in one part of the globe affects the whole is all the more relevant as the world grows increasingly interdependent. The Essential Wallersteinis an ideal introduction to the extensive body of work from a thinker who helped introduce globally sensitive thinking to the field of social science.This is the first in a series of Readers bringing together the key works of major figures in the social sciences.
Author(s): Immanuel Wallerstein
Series: New Press Essential
Publisher: New Press, The
Year: 2000
Language: English
Commentary: Clearscan
Pages: 496
City: New York
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Permissions......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part One: En Route To World-Systems Analysis......Page 22
1-Ethnicity and National Integration in West Africa......Page 24
2-Fanon and the Revolutionary Class......Page 35
3- Radical Intellectuals in a Liberal Society......Page 54
4-Africa in a Capitalist World......Page 60
Part Two: World-Systems Analysis And Social Science......Page 90
5-The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis......Page 92
6-Modernization: Requiescat in Pace......Page 127
7-Societal Development, or Development of the World-System?......Page 133
8-World-Systems Analysis......Page 150
9-Hold the Tiller Firm: On Method and the Unit of Analysis......Page 170
10-Time and Duration: The Unexcluded Middle, or Reflections on Braudeland Prigogine......Page 181
11-What Are We Bounding, and Whom, When We Bound Social Research......Page 191
12-Social Science and the Quest for a just Society......Page 206
Part Three: Institutions Of The Capitaust World-Economy......Page 226
13-Long Waves as Capitalist Process......Page 228
14-(With Terence K. Hopkins) Commodity Chains in the World-Economy Prior to 1800......Page 242
15-(With joan Smith)Households as an Institution of the World-Economy......Page 255
16-The Three Instances of Hegemony in the History of the Capitalist World-Economy......Page 274
17-Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System......Page 285
Part Four: Cleavages In The World-System: Race, Nation, Class, Ethnicity, Gender......Page 312
18-The Construction of Peoplehood: Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity......Page 314
19-Does India Exist?......Page 331
20-Class Formation in the Capitalist World-Economy......Page 336
21-The Bourgeois(ie) as Concept and Reality......Page 345
22-The Ideological Tensions of Capitalism: Universalism Versus Racism and Sexism......Page 365
Part Five: Resistance, Hope, And Deception......Page 374
23-1968, Revolution in the World-System: Theses and Queries......Page 376
24-Social Science and the Communist Interlude, or Interpretations of Contemporary History......Page 395
25-America and the World: Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow......Page 408
26-The Agonies of Liberalism: What Hope Progress?......Page 437
27-Peace, Stability, and Legitimacy, 1990-2025/2050......Page 456
28-The End of What Modernity?......Page 475
