30 Facts About Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein was an American sociologist and economic historian.

Immanuel Wallerstein is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach.

Immanuel Wallerstein 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.

Immanuel Wallerstein was the 13th president of International Sociological Association.

Immanuel Wallerstein received all three of his degrees from Columbia University: a BA in 1951, an MA in 1954, and a PhD in 1959, where he completed his dissertation under the supervision of Hans L Zetterberg and Robert Staughton Lynd.

However, throughout his life, Immanuel Wallerstein studied at other universities around the world, including Oxford University from 1955 to 1956, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Universite Paris 7 Denis Diderot, and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

From 1951 to 1953 Immanuel Wallerstein served in the US Army.

Immanuel Wallerstein married Beatrice Friedman in 1964, and had a daughter, Katharine Immanuel Wallerstein, two years later.

Immanuel Wallerstein was stepfather to Beatrice's two children from a previous marriage, Susan Morgenstern and Robert Morgenstern.

For two decades Immanuel Wallerstein researched Africa, publishing numerous books and articles, and in 1973 he became president of the African Studies Association.

Immanuel Wallerstein's academic career began at Columbia University where he was an instructor and then associate professor of sociology from 1958 to 1971.

Immanuel Wallerstein's reputation preceded him became distinguished professor of sociology at SUNY Binghamton University from 1976 to 1999.

In 1976 Immanuel Wallerstein was offered the unique opportunity to pursue a new avenue of research, and so became head of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilization at Binghamton University in New York, whose mission was "to engage in the analysis of large-scale social change over long periods of historical time".

Immanuel Wallerstein served as a distinguished professor of sociology at SUNY-Binghamton until his retirement in 1999.

Immanuel Wallerstein was awarded multiple honorary titles, intermittently served as Directeur d'etudes associe at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and served as president of the International Sociological Association between 1994 and 1998.

Between 2000 and his death in 2019, Immanuel Wallerstein worked as a senior research scholar at Yale University.

Immanuel Wallerstein died on August 31,2019, from an infection, at the age of 88.

Immanuel Wallerstein began as an expert on post-colonial African affairs, which he selected as the focus of his studies after attending international youth conferences in 1951 and 1952.

Immanuel Wallerstein's publications focused almost exclusively on this topic until the early 1970s, when he began to distinguish himself as a historian and theorist of the global capitalist economy on a macroscopic level.

From Karl Marx, Immanuel Wallerstein took the underlying emphasis on economic factors and their dominance over ideological factors in global politics, and such ideas as the dichotomy between capital and labor, while criticizing deterministic or teleological Marxian views of world economic development through stages such as feudalism and capitalism.

Immanuel Wallerstein stated that another major influence on his work was the "world revolution" of 1968.

Immanuel Wallerstein argued in several works that this revolution marked the end of "liberalism" as a viable ideology in the modern world system.

Immanuel Wallerstein argued that the end of the Cold War, rather than marking a triumph for liberalism, indicates that the current system has entered its 'end' phase: a period of crisis that will end only when it is replaced by another system.

Immanuel Wallerstein was often mocked for arguing since 1980 that the United States is a "hegemon in decline", but since the Iraq War this argument has become more widespread.

Immanuel Wallerstein both participated in and wrote about the World Social Forum.

Immanuel Wallerstein located the origin of the modern world-system in 16th-century Western Europe and the Americas.

Contrary to affirmative theories of modernization and capitalism, Immanuel Wallerstein did not conceive of these differences as mere residues or irregularities that can and will be overcome as the system evolves.

Some critics suggest that Immanuel Wallerstein tended to neglect the cultural dimension of the modern world-system, arguing that there is a world system of global culture which is independent from the economic processes of capitalism; this reduces it to what some call "official" ideologies of states which can then easily be revealed as mere agencies of economic interest.

Immanuel Wallerstein's definition follows dependency theory, which intended to combine the developments of the different societies since the 16th century in different regions into one collective development.

Immanuel Wallerstein argues that global wars are tied to Kondratiev waves.