Unthinking social science : the limits of nineteenth-century paradigms
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Unthinking social science : the limits of nineteenth-century paradigms
Polity Press in association with B. Blackwell, 1991
- : pbk
Available at 90 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [273]-279
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
ISBN 9780745608761
Description
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 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Why unthink? Part 1 The social sciences - from genesis to bifurcation: the French Revolution as a world-historical event
- crisis - the world-economy, the movements and the ideologies. Part 2 The concept of development: the Industrial Revolution - cui bono?
- economic theories and historical disparities of development
- societal development or development of the world-system?
- the Myrdal legacy - racism and underdevelopment as dilemmas
- development - lodestar or illusion? Part 3 Concepts of time and space: a comment on epistemology - what is Africa?
- does India exist?
- the inventions of timespace realities. Part 4 Revisiting Marx: Marx and underdevelopment
- Marxisms as utopias - evolving ideologies. Part 5 Revisiting Braudel: Fernand Braudel, historian, "homme de la conjoncture"
- capitalism - the enemy of the market?
- Braudel on capitalism, or everything upside down
- beyond "annales"? Part 6 World-systems analysis as unthinking: historical systems as complex systems
- call for a debate about the paradigm
- a theory of economic history in place of economic history?
- world-systems analysis - the second phase.
- Volume
-
: pbk ISBN 9780745609119
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Why unthink? Part 1 The social sciences - from genesis to bifurcation: the French Revolution as a world-historical event
- crisis - the world-economy, the movements and the ideologies. Part 2 The concept of development: the Industrial Revolution - cui bono?
- economic theories and historical disparities of development
- societal development or development of the world-system?
- the Myrdal legacy - racism and underdevelopment as dilemmas
- development - lodestar or illusion? Part 3 Concepts of time and space: a comment on epistemology - what is Africa?
- does India exist?
- the inventions of timespace realities. Part 4 Revisiting Marx: Marx and underdevelopment
- Marxisms as utopias - evolving ideologies. Part 5 Revisiting Braudel: Fernand Braudel, historian, "homme de la conjoncture"
- capitalism - the enemy of the market?
- Braudel on capitalism, or everything upside down
- beyond "annales"? Part 6 World-systems analysis as unthinking: historical systems as complex systems
- call for a debate about the paradigm
- a theory of economic history in place of economic history?
- world-systems analysis - the second phase.
by "Nielsen BookData"