Re: "The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analysis"

[Ricardo Duchesne]

On 12 Jul 00, at 13:45, Jim Devine wrote:

   the narrow-minded method of orthodox mainstream 
> social science 

The bipolar academic world of Yates aside, there is no such thing 
as "orthodox mainstream social science" (maybe in economics but 
not sociology). Again, I know Wallerstein would like us to think that 
his carrying some sort of  monumental struggle with "established" 
social science, but the truth is that his WS approach is just one 
among many: neofunctionalism (yes other theories have evolved 
too); conflict theory; phenomenology; symbolic interactionism, 
ethnomethodology; critical theory; exchange, network, and rational 
choice theories; feminist theories; post-modernist theories; 
Giddens and Habermas...