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Time, Space, and Their Knowledge: The Times and Place of the World and Other Systems

Author(s) -

Göran Therborn

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

journal of world-systems research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 1076-156X

DOI - 10.5195/jwsr.2000.220

Subject(s) - presidential address , theme (computing) , sociology , presidential system , space (punctuation) , media studies , social science , political science , law , politics , public administration , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , operating system

At two hours in length, Immanuel Wallersteins Presidential Address to the XIVth World Congress of Sociology in Montreal on July 26, 1998, was almost as that of a Secretary Generals Report. Although long, it nonetheless managed to spellbind a most undisciplined audience of innumerable factions through the speechs unique combination of audacity, erudition and circumspection. The theme and title were The Heritage of Sociology, The Promise of Social Science. The address was the outgoing Presidents conclusion to a worldwide congressional discussion he had initiated; however, neither the heritage of sociology nor the promise of social science is a ?nite inquiry. My contribution here is thus meant to continue that debate

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