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Politics, History, and Social Change
Bilginin Belirsizlikleri
"... Sosyal bilimler, mevcut durumda neler olduğundan söz etmeye çalışır. Aynı anda hem toplumsal gerçekliği yansıtan, hem de bu gerçekliği etkileyen ve aynı anda hem güçlünün hem de ezilenin aracı olan bir toplumsal gerçeklik yorumu inşa eder. Sosyal bilimler bir toplumsal mücadele alanıdır; ama biricik toplumsal mücadele alanı değildir ve muhtemelen toplumsal mücadelenin en önemli alanı değildir. Sosyal bilimlerin tarihi biçimini nasıl önceki mücadeleler belirlemişse, bunların kazanacağı biçimi de gelecekteki toplumsal mücadelelerin sonuçları belirleyecektir.
Yirmi birinci yüzyıldaki sosyal bilimler hakkında söylenebilecek tek şey, onun entelektüel açıdan heyecan verici, toplumsal açıdan önemli ve su götürmez biçimde çekişmeli bir alan olacağıdır."
Yirmi birinci yüzyıldaki sosyal bilimler hakkında söylenebilecek tek şey, onun entelektüel açıdan heyecan verici, toplumsal açıdan önemli ve su götürmez biçimde çekişmeli bir alan olacağıdır."
250 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2004
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Immanuel Wallerstein
210 books345 followersImmanuel Maurice Wallerstein was a scholar of politics, sociologist, historical social scientist, and world-systems analyst. His bimonthly commentaries on world affairs were syndicated.
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January 26, 2020
Wallerstein analyses world systems and epistemology of the structures of knowledge. Historical systems constructs their own structures of knowledge. Capitalist system whose structures of knowledge based on Newtonian laws of motion, Cartesian dualism and Baconian scientism has determined our intelectual, political and academic lives for centuries. Philosophy which is in search
of good and science which is in search of true has has been separated fom each other. Therefore, science has been value-free and it anaylses what nature and man is. It has been held that it doesn't dominate and divert the world of values. The principal characteristic of this scientific knowledge was its certainty.
However, just as science rejected and questioned the revelation and speculative knowledge the same way after 1960's the science itself has been criticised and its truth has been questioned.
Wallerstein suggests that because the science misused or misundersood it should not be put aside.
But the end of the capitalism as a historical system and its structures of knowledge as we know it today has completed its life. Until a new historical system emerges, existing structures of knowledge will be in use and this knowledge will be premised on uncertainty.
Additionally, ı have to say that ı could not understand well the passage he is talking about Prigogine who is a Nobel laurate in physics.
of good and science which is in search of true has has been separated fom each other. Therefore, science has been value-free and it anaylses what nature and man is. It has been held that it doesn't dominate and divert the world of values. The principal characteristic of this scientific knowledge was its certainty.
However, just as science rejected and questioned the revelation and speculative knowledge the same way after 1960's the science itself has been criticised and its truth has been questioned.
Wallerstein suggests that because the science misused or misundersood it should not be put aside.
But the end of the capitalism as a historical system and its structures of knowledge as we know it today has completed its life. Until a new historical system emerges, existing structures of knowledge will be in use and this knowledge will be premised on uncertainty.
Additionally, ı have to say that ı could not understand well the passage he is talking about Prigogine who is a Nobel laurate in physics.
September 29, 2018
Wallerstein'ın sosyal bilimler konusundaki eleştirel yaklaşımını özetleyen, farklı bir sosyal bilimler anlayışı için, bilginin üretiminden başlayarak, alternatif düşünce tarzları öneren, nitelikli bir kitabı daha.
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