SOCIAL CHANGE IN IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN'S WORLD-SYSTEM THEORY (Zmiana spoleczna w perspektywie teorii systemu swiatowego Immanuela Wallersteina

• Authors: Osicka-Kajda Anna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the article is to analyse Immanuel Wallerstein's approach towards social change and to compare it with the concept of macrosocial change in modernization theories. The main thesis proposed by the authoress is that although Immanuel Wallerstein declares that perception of social change as framed by the 'ahistorical models' (such bias being typical of modernization theories) should be abandoned, he nevertheless advances a model which is equally ahistorical..

Keywords

EN

HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY; MODERNIZATION THEORIES; SOCIAL CHANGE; WORLD-SYSTEM ANALYSIS

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Socjologiczne
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 2(193)
• Pages: 77-108
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Osicka-Kajda Anna

• Anna Osicka-Kajda, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Bankowa 11, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA06613