4/30(四)台大社會系社會學演講
2015-04-24
演題：What Is World-Systems Analysis?
講者：Professor Salvatore Babones
時間：2015/4/30（四），12:30-14:00pm
地點：社會社工系館401室會議室
主持人：柯志哲主任
演講摘要：
World-systems analysis is a well-established but poorly-defined critical research tradition in the social sciences. Its undisputed progenitor, Immanuel Wallerstein, steadfastly maintains that world-systems analysis is not a theory, yet it is widely referred to as such by commentators, critics, and practitioners alike. The resolution to this conundrum is to identify the defining elements of world-systems analysis as a perspective for understanding human society, then to evaluate propositions based on these defining elements as theories that have been conceptualized from a world-systems perspective. In this paper five defining elements of world-systems analysis are identified that together support a central theorem that the core-periphery hierarchy of the modern world-system can best be understood in terms of state strength and cultural integration. A further conjecture is made that the successor world-system to the current capitalist world-economy is more likely to be an American world-empire than the socialist world-government craved by many world-systems analysts.
講者簡介：
Salvatore Babones is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, former chair of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association and co-editor of The Handbook of World-Systems Analysis (Routledge, 2012). His research focuses on the macro-level structure of the global economy. His most recent book is Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research (SAGE, 2014).
講者：Professor Salvatore Babones
時間：2015/4/30（四），12:30-14:00pm
地點：社會社工系館401室會議室
主持人：柯志哲主任
演講摘要：
World-systems analysis is a well-established but poorly-defined critical research tradition in the social sciences. Its undisputed progenitor, Immanuel Wallerstein, steadfastly maintains that world-systems analysis is not a theory, yet it is widely referred to as such by commentators, critics, and practitioners alike. The resolution to this conundrum is to identify the defining elements of world-systems analysis as a perspective for understanding human society, then to evaluate propositions based on these defining elements as theories that have been conceptualized from a world-systems perspective. In this paper five defining elements of world-systems analysis are identified that together support a central theorem that the core-periphery hierarchy of the modern world-system can best be understood in terms of state strength and cultural integration. A further conjecture is made that the successor world-system to the current capitalist world-economy is more likely to be an American world-empire than the socialist world-government craved by many world-systems analysts.
講者簡介：
Salvatore Babones is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, former chair of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association and co-editor of The Handbook of World-Systems Analysis (Routledge, 2012). His research focuses on the macro-level structure of the global economy. His most recent book is Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research (SAGE, 2014).
