The Uncertainties of Knowledge

Klappentext Immanuel Wallerstein is Director of the Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. Zusammenfassung 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 work offers a fresh conception of the social sciences! one whose methodology allows for uncertainties.

Product details

• Authors: Immanuel Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2004
• EAN: 9781592132430
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-243-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Social; Politics History & Social Chan; Politics, History, and Social
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries