Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Awards
- 🏆 Kondratiev Medal🏆 Officer of Arts and Letters🏆 W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship award🏆 Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Robert Staughton Lynd
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Beverly J. Silver
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present."
"And in the present we are all irremediably the products of our background, our training, our personality and social role, and the structured pressures within which we operate."
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Timeline
1930
Born
Birth2019
Died
Death
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