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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (/ ˈ w ɔː l ər s t iː n /; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach . [3]
Jul 1, 2019 · Immanuel Wallerstein. Wallerstein first became interested in world affairs as a teenager in New York City, and was particularly interested in the anti-colonial movement in India at the time.
Immanuel Wallerstein has developed the best-known version of world-systems analysis, beginning in the 1970s. [9] [10] Wallerstein traces the rise of the capitalist world-economy from the "long" 16th century (c. 1450–1640).
Sep 10, 2019 · Immanuel Wallerstein, a sociologist who shook up the field with his ideas about Western domination of the modern world and the very nature of sociological inquiry, died on Aug. 31 at his home in...
Dec 8, 2020 · The modern world-system. Wallerstein (1974) laid out his basic argument in the first of four volumes on the modern world-system as he defined it. Its focus was on capitalist agriculture and the emergence of the European world-economy in the sixteenth century.
Jul 28, 2021 · Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, born on 28 September 1930, is best known for having developed world-systems analysis, a macrohistorical approach to understanding capitalism. He first became interested in world affairs, particularly the anticolonial movement in India, as a teenager living in New York City.
Dec 8, 2020 · Arguably, one of the major innovations in social science beginning in the 1970 s was Immanuel Wallerstein’s discovery of what he called the “modern world-system.”
