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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein |
ISBN: | 0816633975 9780816633975 0816633983 9780816633982 |
OCLC Number: | 41090761 |
Description: | ix, 277 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Social science and the communist interlude, or interpretations of contemporary history -- 2. The ANC and South Africa : the past and future of liberation movements in the world-system -- 3. The rise of East Asia, or the world-system in the twenty-first century -- Coda : The so-called Asian crisis : geopolitics in the Longue durée -- 4. States? Sovereignty? The dilemmas of capitalists in an age of transition -- 5. Ecology and capitalist costs of production : no exit -- 6. Liberalism and democracy : Frères ennemis? -- 7. Integration to what? Marginalization from what? -- 8. Social change? Change is eternal. Nothing ever changes -- 9. Social science and contemporary society : the vanishing guarantees of rationality -- 10. Differentiation and reconstruction in the social sciences -- 11. Eurocentrism and its avatars : the dilemmas of social science -- 12. The structures of knowledge, or how many ways may we know? -- 13. The rise and future demise of world-systems analysis -- 14. Social science and the quest for a just society -- 15. The heritage of sociology, the promise of social science. |
Responsibility: | Immanuel Wallerstein. |
Abstract:
"Wallerstein divides his work between an appraisal of significant recent events and a study of the shifts in thought influenced by those events. The End of the World As We Know It concludes with a crucial analysis of the momentous intellectual challenges to social science as we know it and suggests possible responses to them."--Jacket.
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