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08 Wallerstein
08 Wallerstein
The Opening Ceremony of the Yokohama World Congress of Sociology featured the
ISA’s new and only association-wide award, the Award for Excellence in Sociological
Research and Practice. The award was widely advertised to encourage the broadest
possible nominations from ISA members. From among a number of impressive
candidates, the seven-person committee drawn from the ISA Executive Committee
chose Immanuel Wallerstein as the first recipient.
Having started out in the 1960s analyzing colonialism and national liberation
struggles in Africa, he turned to the broadest possible intellectual project, the analysis
of the emergence and subsequent dynamics of the “modern world-system,” carefully
grounding his theoretical enterprise in deep and detailed historical scholarship.
Beginning in 1974 with the first volume of his Modern World-System (of which three
further volumes appeared in 1980, 1989 and 2011) his approach revitalized sociology as
a comparative historical enterprise, bringing it back to classic concerns with long-term
social change. His world-systems framework continues to be a thriving area of social
science, attracting some of its best minds.
As he rewrote the history of the world he came to reflect and analyze the
peculiar provincialism of Western Social Science, not least its segmentation into artificial
disciplines. His view on the reconstruction of the social sciences came to be widely
known with the acclaimed publication of Open the Social Sciences, the 1995 report of
the Gulbenkian Commission that he chaired. Since then he has been the author of many
volumes on the history and future of the social sciences.
Wallerstein is not just an intellectual giant. He has also been a genuine servant
of sociology as a global discipline, traveling tirelessly around the world and serving in a
multitude of organizational roles. As President of the International Sociological
Association (1994-98), he created a receptive space in the global arena for scholars
from all over the world but particularly from the Global South, from Latin America, from
Africa, from Asia and from the Middle East. He cultivated and inspired a new generation
of leaders of the ISA and of world sociology. The committee considered there to be no
more worthy first recipient of the Award for Excellence and Practice of Sociology than
Professor Immanuel Wallerstein.
Așa cum el a rescris istoria lumii a cam pentru a reflecta și analiza provincialismul
specific de Vest Științe Sociale, nu în ultimul rând TIC segmentare spre disciplinele
artificiale. Punctul său de vedere cu privire la reconstrucția științelor sociale CAM
cunoscut cu publicarea aclamat de deschise științelor sociale, amânarea Gulbenkian
Comisiei din 1995 Că El a condus. De atunci, el a fost, autor al mai multor volume
despre istoria și viitorul științelor sociale.
Wallerstein nu este doar un gigant intelectual. El are beens aussi o portie reală a
sociologiei ca disciplină la nivel mondial, care călătoresc neobosit din întreaga lume și
repartizați într-o multitudine de roluri organizaționale. În calitate de președinte al
Asociației Sociologice Internaționale (1994-1998), el a creat un spațiu receptiv în arena
mondială pentru oamenii de știință din întreaga lume SPECIAL scop de sud globala, din
America Latină, din Africa, din Asia și din Orientul Mijlociu . El a cultivat și a inspirat o
noua generatie de lideri ai ISA și de sociologie lume. Comitetul consideră a fi acolo nici
un beneficiar mai demn de prima Premiul pentru Excelenta si practica de Sociologie
decât profesorul Immanuel Wallerstein.