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

Authors:Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (Author), University of Minnesota (Publisher)

Summary:"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

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1999

Physical Description:ix, 277 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780816633975, 9780816633982, 0816633975, 0816633983

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:41090761

Subjects:

Filosofische aspecten

Sciences sociales Philosophie

Social sciences

Social sciences Philosophy

Sociale verandering

Sociale wetenschappen

Sociologie Philosophie

Sociology Philosophy

Twenty-first century

Contents:

Preface

ix

Uncertainty and Creativity: Premises and Conclusions

1

(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)

Notes

253

(16)

Permissions

269

(2)

Index

271