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Notes on the Method of World-System Biography

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Notes on the Method of World-System Biography
 
Creator Harris, Kevan
McQuade, Brendan
 
Description C. Wright Mills boiled the social sciences down to one sentence: “They are attempts to help us understand biography and history, and the connections between the two in a variety of social structures.” This special issue considers biography as an fruitful entry point into macro-historical sociology. With lineages from Marx and Weber to Wallerstein and Bourdieu, the sociology of the individual can produce a clearer path between the muddy oppositions of structure and agency or the longue durée and the event. This special issue unbinds biography from methodological nationalism and the teleology of great men tales. Instead, we aim to show how individuals are "a world within a world," an acting subject structured within world historical time and place.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Date 2015-08-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/16
10.5195/jwsr.2015.16
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Vol. 21 No. 2 (2015): Special Issue: World-System Biographies; 276-286
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/16/42
 
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