Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms - Couverture souple

Wallerstein, Immanuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745609112 ISBN 13 : 9780745609119

Editeur : Polity Press, 1991

Synopsis

In this work, Immanuel Wallerstein develops a critique of the legacy of 19th-century social science for social thought in the late 20th century. He argues that the presumptions which provide the foundation of dominant research today need "unthinking" and should be revised or even discarded. Once considered liberating, these notions have become a barrier to clear understanding of the social world in current times. Applying these ideas to a variety of theoretical ares and historical problems, Wallerstein also offers a critical discussion of some of the key figures whose ideas have influenced the position he formulates, including Marx and Braudel. In the concluding sections of the book, Wallerstein demonstrates how these insights may lead to a revision of world-systems analysis.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

∗ Wallerstein is the originator of world–systems theory, the most influentia l way of thinking about global influences on historical development. ∗ This book provides new epistemological discussion to the premises of history and the social sciences as formulated in the nineteenth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745609112
• ISBN 13: 9780745609119
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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