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36 - Global Political Sociology and World-Systems

from VI - Globalization and New and Bigger Sources of Power and Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Şakin Erin  and
Christopher Chase-Dunn
Edited by
Thomas Janoski ,
Cedric de Leon ,
Joya Misra  and
Isaac William Martin
Thomas Janoski
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
Cedric de Leon
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joya Misra
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Isaac William Martin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

World-systems analysis is a holistic and critical social science approach that proposes the study of social change focusing on whole systemic human interaction networks. The general theoretical approach is based on institutional materialism that is inspired by classical sociology and anthropology (Chase-Dunn and Lerro 2016). The world-system perspective emerged in the 1960s and 1970s to explicate the nature of the core–periphery hierarchy over the last five centuries.

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world-systems analysiscoreperipheryhierarchysocial networksstructural equivalencetradeglobalization
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The New Handbook of Political Sociology , pp. 953 - 972
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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