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The End of the world as we know it : social science for the twenty-first century

"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
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1999
ix, 277 pages ; 24 cm
9780816633975, 9780816633982, 0816633975, 0816633983
41090761
Prefaceix
Uncertainty and Creativity: Premises and Conclusions1(6)
Part I THE WORLD OF CAPITALISM
Social Science and the Communist Interlude, or Interpretations of Contemporary History
7(12)
The ANC and South Africa: The Past and Future of Liberation Movements in the World-System
19(15)
The Rise of East Asia, or The World-System in the Twenty-First Century
34(23)
Coda: The So-called Asian Crisis: Geopolitics in the Longue Duree
49(8)
States? Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Capitalists in an Age of Transition
57(19)
Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production: No Exit
76(11)
Liberalism and Democracy: Freres Ennemis?
87(17)
Integration to What? Marginalization from What?
104(14)
Social Change? Change Is Eternal. Nothing Ever Changes
118(19)
Part II THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE
Social Science and Contemporary Society: The Vanishing Guarantees of Rationality
137(20)
Differentiation and Reconstruction in the Social Sciences
157(11)
Eurocentrism and Its Avatars: The Dilemmas of Social Science
168(17)
The Structures of Knowledge, or How Many Ways May We Know?
185(7)
The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analysis
192(10)
Social Science and the Quest for a Just Society
202(18)
The Heritage of Sociology, the Promise of Social Science
220(33)
Notes253(16)
Permissions269(2)
Index271