scholarly journals Is the World-System Approach Just a Global Perspective? The Connection Between Global and Regional Developments in Pre-Industrial France

1995 ◽  
pp. 497-511
Author(s):  
Kees Terlouw
Keyword(s):  
System Approach ◽  
World System ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Regional Structure ◽  
Stable Position ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Mode Of Transportation ◽  
Entire World

France is the only state who always belonged to the core of the world-system and never attained hegemony, nor declined into the semi-periphery. This paper focuses on the reasons for this relatively stable position in the pre-industrial world-system. Crucial is France's size and fragmented regional structure. These constraints prevented France from building on its favorable position at the inception of the world-system. France's development within the world-system was further retarded by the shift in the center of gravity and mode of transportation of the world-system. This interplay between general processes, at the level of the entire world-system, and the specific regional structure within France, demonstrates how the general processes of the world-system can be linked to the specific situation in a given country.

HEURISTIC CAPABILITIES OF I. WALLERSTEIN'S MODEL OF PERIPHERALIZATION OF SOCIETIES ON THE MATERIAL OF PRECAPITALIST SYSTEMS: SUMMARIZING CRITICISMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 104-120
Author(s):  
Anna Izgarskaya ◽  
Stanislav Lysenko
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
System Approach ◽  
World System ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article summarizes the results of criticism of I. Wallerstein's model of peripheralization, carried out at different times by foreign researchers who used this model to interpret processes in pre-capitalist systems and societies. On this basis, the authors formulate a number of requirements for the subsequent development of a theoretical model of relations between the core and the periphery of the world-system approach of I. Wallerstein. The authors believe that the results of the study may be relevant for the analysis of societies undergoing a process of peripheralization in the post-Soviet space and, in particular, Russia.

Devolution processes and the theory of historical development by S. Sanderson

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
A.V. Verkhoturov ◽  
◽  
A.A. Obukhov
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
World System ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Evolutionary Trend ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
American Historian ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein ◽  
Main Ideas

Analyzed is one of the most comprehensive modern approaches to the problem of the existence of evolution of human society as such and of specific human communities, i.e. “General Theory of Historical Development” by American historian and sociologist Stephen Sanderson. While agreeing, in general, with its main ideas, we believe that it is important to note that the issue of existence of individual communities demonstrating devolution (regression to an earlier historical state), stagnation or degeneration at certain historical stages is practically ignored in the framework of the theory under consideration. This creates its vulnerability in the face of specific empirical data, indicating a deviation from the evolutionary trend. We believe that overcoming this theoretical difficulty is possible in the process of comprehending the theory of S. Sanderson in the context of ideas of the world-system approach of Immanuel Wallerstein. We want to show that examples of devolution, stagnation and degeneration of societies do not deny general progressive evolutionary tendencies, characteristic for the world-system as a whole, but only indicate the transition of a particular society to a lower level within the world-system (from the core to the semi-periphery, or from the semi-periphery to the periphery).

World-System Theory

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Chase-Dunn ◽  
Marilyn Grell-Brisk
Keyword(s):  
Division Of Labor ◽  
Latin American ◽  
World System ◽  
World Market ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
System Perspective ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Immanuel Wallerstein

The world-system perspective emerged during the world revolution of 1968 when social scientists contemplated the meaning of Latin American dependency theory for Africa. Immanuel Wallerstein, Terence Hopkins, Samir Amin, Andre Gunder Frank, and Giovanni Arrighi developed slightly different versions of the world-system perspective in interaction with each other. The big idea was that the global system had a stratified structure on inequality based on institutionalized exploitation. This implied that the whole system was the proper unit of analysis, not national societies, and that development and underdevelopment had been structured by global power relations for centuries. The modern world-system is a self-contained entity based on a geographically differentiated division of labor and bound together by a world market. In Wallerstein’s version capitalism had become predominant in Europe and its peripheries in the long 16th century and had expanded and deepened in waves. The core states were able to concentrate the most profitable economic activities and they exploited the semi-peripheral and peripheral regions by means of colonialism and the emergent international division of labor, which relies on unequal exchange. The world-system analysts all focused on global inequalities, but their terminologies were somewhat different. Amin and Frank talked about center and periphery. Wallerstein proposed a three-tiered structure with an intermediate semiperiphery between the core and the periphery, and he used the term core to suggest a multicentric region containing a group of states rather than the term center, which implies a hierarchy with a single peak. When the world-system perspective emerged, the focus on the non-core (periphery and semiperiphery) was called Third Worldism. Current terminology refers to the Global North (the core) and the Global South (periphery and semiperiphery).

scholarly journals A Story of Scattered Hearts: Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Dr. Varsha Vaidya ◽  
Mr. Siddharth Patil
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Emotional Balance ◽  
Emotional Basis

Human beings are so fragile and impatient that they are easily subjected on emotional basis. It is in human nature that they empathise everything that emotionally attach with them. Emotion plays a vital role in the entire world of human relationship. It is not inept to note here that our thoughts are often forms the core of our actions. It reflects the framework of our psychology greatly. There are instances in the world of living where one work affects because of the mood of a person. Deliberately, the writers across the world develop and circle their thoughts around emotional balance of human beings in various points. They successfully stress the effect of a particular crisis and it’s outcomes on human mind. The present research paper deals with the effects of such crisis on the lives of human being who are deeply engulfed in their normal life. The study is a sincere endeavour to bring to the fore a serious effect of Nepali-a politically motivated-uprising on the common man living peacefully, amicably in harmony with nature.

scholarly journals SOBRE A MOBILIDADE NO SISTEMA MUNDIAL: A RELEVÂNCIA DO CONCEITO DE SEMIPERIFERIA PARA OS PROJETOS DE DESENVOLVIMENTO NO SÉC. XXI

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Freitas
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
System Approach ◽  
World Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World

The objective of this article is to discuss the relevance of the concept of semiperiphery to analyze the world system in the 21st century. First, the main concepts of the world-system approach will be analyzed. In the second part, a more in-depth examination of the question of the semi-periphery will be made through its political and economic characteristics. Later, we will examine the empirical attempts to define the semiperiphery, its role in the reproduction of the capitalist world-economy and the question of mobility in the world-system hierarchy. In conclusion, the role of government apparatus in the issue of development and overcoming the status of semi-periphery in the capitalist world-system will be highlighted.

Urban Class and Communal Consciousness in Colonial Punjab: The Genesis of India's Intermediate Regime

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard G. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
World System ◽  
Intermediate Regime ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Unequal Exchange ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Third World

A cornerstone of Wallerstein's (1974) theory of the capitalist world system is that economic development occurs in certain (core) regions of the world system at the expense of development in other (peripheral) regions. This thesis, accepted in one form or another by scholars following a dependency, neo-Marxist, or unequal exchange conception of economic development (as, for example, Amin 1976 or Laclau 1971; see discussion in Foster-Carter 1973 and Kahn 1980: 203ff) provides the foundation for their avowal of the ‘development of underdevelopment.’ The development of the core industrial capitalist nations required, so they argue, the distorted and repressed economic development of the third world.

scholarly journals O wielkiej dyferencjacji i konwergencji

1970 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 235-242
Author(s):  
Michał Kwiecień
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
World System ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Alternative Theory ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current State ◽  
Socioeconomic System ◽  
Great Divergence

The book Great Divergence and Great Convergence: A Global Perspective is an attempt at analysis of historical process that led to current state of global socioeconomic system. Grinin and Korotayev suggest that both Great Divergence and Great Convergence are two different stages of the same process called by them Global Modernization. Authors also claim that globalization have weakened the core and strengthened the periphery of World System due to “law of communicating vessels” of global economy. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct authors’ view on nature of historical process and to present non-Marxian historical materialism as an alternative theory.

scholarly journals Comecon as the «Core» of Alternative Globalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-113
Author(s):  
A. A. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
World System ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World

Book review: «The World System of Socialism» and the Global Economy in the mid-1950s – mid-1970s/ ed. by M.A. Lipkin. Moscow: Ves’ mir, 2019.

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