世界システムの理論と分析
世界システム論
1986 年 1986 巻 82 号 p. 1-6,L5
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1986 年 1986 巻 82 号 p. 1-6,L5
All the articles included in this issue on ‘world system approaches’ attempt to analyze various aspects of global politico-economic realities in order to reveal some essential features of the world system concerned. This introductory essay gives an overall survey of various intellectual traditions which have been discerned among various world system approaches:
(1) macrohistorical sociology, focusing on mechanisms of societal chage;
(2) comparative economic history, using cost-benefit calculation and emphasizing on institutional lags from productive potentials;
(3) dependency theory, interested in negative domestic consequences of core-periphery relations;
(4) behavioral sciences, concerned about falsifiability;
(5) microeconomic theory, assuming rational individual behavior and examing provision of public goods;
(6) philosophy and phenomenology, scrutinizing theoretical assumptions and their consequences;
All the articles are related to one or two of these traditions, demonstrating diversities of world system approaches as well as interactions among various traditions.
