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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. He attended Columbia University, where he received a B.A. in 1951, an M.A. in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in 1959, and subsequently taught until 1971, when he ...
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.
Education. 1951 BA, Columbia. 1954 MA, Columbia, thesis topic ‘McCarthyism and the Conservative’. 1959 PhD, Columbia, thesis topic, ‘The Emergence of Two West African Nations: Ghana and the Ivory Coast’; supervisor, Hans Zetterberg.
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago to understanding the history and development of the modern world.
In World-Systems Analysis, Immanuel Wallerstein provides a concise and accessible introduction to the comprehensive approach that he pioneered thirty years ago...
Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019) was one of the most influential American sociologists in the post-World War II period. Born and raised in New York City, he obtained his BA (1951), MA (1954) and PhD (1959) from Columbia University.
Immanuel M. Wallerstein ’51, GSAS’59, a sociologist who transformed the field with his ideas about Western domination of the modern world and the very nature of sociological inquiry, died on August 31, 2019, at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 88.
