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Discuss World System Theory in the context of modern society.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Social Change in Modern Society

World-system theory, developed by Immanuel Wallerstein in The Modern World-System (1974), argues that the proper object of sociological analysis is not the society or the nation-state but the capitalist world-economy as a whole. Modern society, on this reading, is not a set of societies modernising at different speeds; it is one historical system with a…

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  • The architecture of the modern world-system
  • The rhythms of modern society
  • Reading contemporary society through the theory
  • Limits of the approach
  • Conclusion

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