ISBN: 9781592132423 - the uncertainties of knowledge (politics, history, and social change) (3 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Offers a conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.&Uumlber den AutorImmanuel Wallerstein is Director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and Senior Research Scholar at Yale .

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Uncertainties of Knowledge extends Immanuel Wallerstein's decade-long work of elucidating the crisis of knowledge in current intellectual thought. He argues that the disciplinary divisions of academia have trapped us in a paradigm that assumes knowledge is a certainty and that it can help us explain the social world. This is wrong, he suggests. Instead, Wallerstein offers a new conception of the social sciences, one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.…