Globalization in a Structuralist Perspective

• Authors: Morawski Witold
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author engages in a polemic with a structuralist perspective on globalisation. Whereas acknowledging the fact that the particular perspective has dominated the globalisation debate in recent years, he assumes a highly critical stand towards that view. In the authors' eyes, there is no evidence sufficient to support not only the structuralis thesis itself but also any deterministic approach towards globalisation. However, determinism - albeit of its multiple faces - still enjoys enormous popularity within the academic milieu, and even seems to be shared by the circles that consistently disagree on any other subject. In the end, it is argued the third wave of globalization requires a great deal of reflection at the level of ontology, epistemology and methodology.

Keywords

EN

globalisation; structuralist perspective; structuralism; marxism

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 149-163

Contributors

author

Morawski Witold

• Kozminski University, Department of Social Sciences

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