re jack owens suggestion of putting up papers for Al Bergesen's American
Sociological Association (ASA) session in Toronto on the World-Systems
Archive. good idea. participants please send me your materials.
along this line i should mention another ASA session that I have
organized under the auspices of the Political Economy of the
World-system section (PEWS). The title of the panel is "The World Polity
Perspective: Global Institutions and Global Culture." This panel
focusses on the world polity perspective developed by John Meyer and his
colleagues. Participants will be John Meyer, Giovanni Arrighi, Terry
Boswell and Immanuel Wallerstein. A background paper for the session is
John Meyer's "Changing cultural content of the nation-state," which is
available from
gopher://csf.Colorado.EDU:70/11/wsystems/papers/meyer_john_w
Another paper that is relevant for understanding the world polity
perspective is John Boli and George M. Thomas, "World culture in the
world polity" _American Sociological Review_ 62,2:171-190 (April 1997).
This session will be on Monday, August 11 at 10:30 am.
chris