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Featured Author – Immanuel Wallerstein (1930-2019)
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Name: Immanuel Wallerstein Title: Dr. Position: Senior Research Scientist, Sociology Organisation: Department of Sociology, Yale University
Brief profile:
B.A. at Columbia University(1951)
M.A. at Columbia University(1954)
Ph.D. at Columbia University(1959)
Former President of the International Sociological Association (1994-1998)
Chair of the International Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences (1993-1995)
Writing in three domains of world-systems analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system; the contemporary crisis of the capitalist world-economy; the structures of knowledge – Books in each of these domains include respectively The Modern World-System (4 vols.); Utopistics, or Historical Choices for the Twenty-first Century; and Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms.’