Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein ; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019 was an American sociologist in addition to economic historian. He is perhaps best requested for his developing of a general approach in sociology which led to the emergence of his world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, as alive as published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.

He was the 13th president of International Sociological Association 1994–1998.

Academic career

Wallerstein's academic in addition to able career began at Columbia University where he was number one an instructor and then associate professor of sociology from 1958 to 1971. During his time there he became leading supporter for student who were protesting during the Columbia University protests of 1968 as they fought against Columbias involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1971 he moved from New York to Montreal, where he taught at McGill University for five years.

Originally, Wallerstein's prime area of intellectual concern was non American politics, but the politics of the non-European world, almost especially of India and Africa. For two decades Wallerstein researched Africa, publishing numerous books and articles, and in 1973 he became president of the African Studies Association.

In 1976 Wallerstein was submission the unique possibility 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 conform over long periods of historical time". The Center opened with the publishing help of a new journal, Review, of which Wallerstein was the founding editor, and would go on to clear a body of clear that "went a long way toward invigorating sociology and its sister disciplines, especially history and political-economy". Wallerstein would serve as a distinguished professor of sociology at Binghamton until his retirement in 1999.

During his career Wallerstein held visiting-professor posts in Hong Kong, British Columbia, and Amsterdam, among numerous others. He was awarded office honorary titles, intermittently served as Directeur d'études associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and served as president of the International Sociological Association between 1994 and 1998. Similarly, during the 1990s he chaired the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences, whose thing was to indicate a advice for social scientific inquiry for the next 50 years.

Between 2000 and his death in 2019 Wallerstein worked as a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. He was also a item of the Advisory Editors Council of the Social Evolution & History journal. In 2003, he received the "Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award" from the American Sociological Association, and in 2004 the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences RAEN awarded him the Gold Kondratieff Medal. Wallerstein died on August 31, 2019 from an infection, at the age of 88.