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formal definition of world-system by g kohler 17 March 2002 17:33 UTC |
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here is a formal definition from Chase-Dunn's glossary -- Reference: Christopher Chase-Dunn, Global Formation: Structures of the World-Economy. Updated Edition. Oxford, England: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, pages 347-348 p. 348 "World-system: a whole social system (not necessarily global) composed of cultural, normative, economic, political, and military relations which is bounded by a territorial network of regularized exchange of material goods. Regarding the problem of spatial boundaries of world-systems, see chapter 15, "Spatio-temporal mapping"." . . . and just to confuse you a bit, he has three more formal definitions, which are: p. 347 (with hyphen) "World-economy: a type of world-system in which the territorial network of economic exchange is politically structured as an interstate system." p. 347 (without hyphen) "World economy: the total sum of economic relationships contained in a world-system, including intranational, transnational, and international production and exchange." p. 347-348 "World-empire: a type of world-system in which the territorial economic network is largely contained within a single state apparatus." . . . and to irritate some other members of the world(-)system(s) club, he did not even give a formal definition of "world system" (without hyphen) or of "Weltsystem" (no hypen and no space), as in the German edition of Lenin's introduction to "Imperialism" of 1922. with greetings to Russia from Canada, Gernot Kohler in response to: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A question by Evgeni Nikolaev 17 March 2002 Dear Sirs, I cannot find an answer to a very simple, and therefore stupid question: What is (are) the formal definition(s) of the term “world-system” as viewed from the world-systems perspective? I am now writing a report on the world-systems analysis in Russian, and the most important thing that I cannot find is precisely the above definition. I will highly appreciate your help, and apologize for the trouble. Evgeni Nikolaev. _________________________________________________________________________________ Still paying $22.95 a month for unlimited dial-up? Get 3webXS, only $9.95 a month!!! Switch & Save at http://www.Get3web.com/?mkid=emt001
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