Re: Luke Rondinaro's world system theory

Gunder, is that it?  A bit of a scant review.  Seems like the Emperor
put on almost no clothes!

Elson Boles
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Sociology
Saginaw Valley State University
University Center
Saginaw MI, 48710

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>  SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC EMPEROR'S CLOTHES
>                          A Review Essay 
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> of Naked Science. Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, 
> Power, and Knowledge edited by Laura Nader. New York & 
> London: Routledge 1996, xvi,318 pp. $ ??
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>        ANDRE GUNDER FRANK
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> abstract
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> The editor explains: "The point is to open up people's minds 
> to other ways of looking and questioning to change attitudes 
> about knowledge, to reframe the organization of science - to 
> formulate ways of thinking globally about science traditions 
> ....  There are different kinds of knowledge that provide 
> valid truths of use to human kind. If a dominant [Western] 
> science silences that knowledge, we all lose.... The myth of 
> a single science can be seen as a myth; the false separation 
> between science and nonscience may be considered a barrier to 
> new thinking; and a whole range of vital and experimental 
> thinking is possible" [23-24].
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> The central theses and the abundant evidence in this book are 
> that "science is not free of culture; rather, it is full of 
> it. Militarization has certainly had an effect on American 
> science... [and] has also fired the pervasive 
> commercialization of the scientific effort.... Politicization 
> of science is unavoidable, [because] behaviour is affected by 
> those who control funding and who often determine the 
> research questions [and] virtually all science has social and 
> political implications.... Denial of a contexutalized 
> science, or the assertion that science is autonomous, strikes 
> at the scientific endeavor, defined as a process of free 
> inquiry" [xiii,9].
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