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Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms
In this new edition of a classic work -- now with a new preface -- on the roots of social scientific thinking, Immanuel Wallerstein develops a thorough-going critique of the legacy of nineteenth-century social science for social thought in the new millennium. We have to "unthink" -- radically revise and discard -- many of the presumptions that still remain the fo...more
Paperback, 296 pages
Published
July 22nd 2001
by Temple University Press
(first published 1991)
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He's one of my heroes, and this is a great book. It gets somewhat repetitive and disappointing towards the second half, but if you need a short version of Wallerstein's ideas that doesn't involve reading about 16th century cereal prices in Poland, this is for you. I do hope you read it - it's immensely valuable.
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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein is a scholar of politics, sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst. His bimonthly commentaries on world affairs are syndicated.
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