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Sociologie et sociétés

Capitalisme et système-monde
Capitalism and the World System
Samir AMIN

Racisme, ethnicité, nation Article abstract

Volume 24, Number 2, automne 1992 This paper deals with three questions relating to capitalist expansion: i)
polarization between centers and peripheries, which the author considers to
URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001008ar be immanent in global capitalism and specific to it, being the expression of the
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/001008ar law of globalized values ; ii) the long cycle (Kondratieff) the very existence of
which the author questions, and even more so the mechanistic representations
of its repetitive development; iii) the hegemonies which he considers to be the
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exception, the rule being rivalry between concurrent centers. The author
insists consequently on the specificity of capitalism and refuses any
extrapolations from the phenomena under consideration to previous time
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0038-030X (print)
1492-1375 (digital)

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AMIN, S. (1992). Capitalisme et système-monde. Sociologie et sociétés, 24 (2),
181–202. https://doi.org/10.7202/001008ar

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