Culture and the World-System

Boyne, Roy

doi:10.1177/026327690007002004

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“…Following from such substantive contrasts between collectively constituted subjectivity and objective structures of social organization, anthropological "culture" can also by extension be opposed as a theoretical or methodological category of analysis to the "brute and disinterested objectivism" of sociological abstractions, providing a richer subjectivistic emphasis on the "rich description" of "human thought, achievement, consciousness, pain, stupidity and evil" that, precisely because of its irreducibility to objective structures of determination, "cannot be anticipated on the basis of some theoretical premise." 54 This is, of course, nothing other than a restatement of the anti-reductionist tradition stretching from Dilthey into American cultural anthropology. 55 This methodological dimension of the culture-concept emerged in late nineteenthcentury German thought as a direct reaction against the rise of positivistic science, and after something of a lull in the concept's centrality during the period of Hegelianism's intellectual ascendancy.…”

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The Resonance of “Culture”: Framing a Problem in Global Concept-History

Sartori

2005

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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In the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, "culture" achieved the status of a truly global concept. We find discourses of "culture" emerging to prominence in the German-speaking world during the second half of the eighteenth century (with the closely associated linguistic arenas of the Netherlands and Scandinavia rapidly following suit); in the English-speaking world starting in the first half of the nineteenth century; in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and South Asia starting in the second half of the nineteenth century; and just about everywhere else in the course of the twentieth century. "Culture" began to circulate far beyond the European sites of its modern genesis, sometimes through the direct transfer of lexical items from Western European languages (e.g., Russian kulHtura; the use of kalcar in various South Asian languages); and more often through the construction of new translative equivalencies with preexisting words or concepts most often signifying purification, refinement, or improvement (e.g., Japanese bun-ka; Chinese wen-hua; Bangla and Hindi sanskriti; Urdu tamaddun). 1 However creatively deployed in however divergent a range of contexts, the power, resonance, and usefulness of any conceptual vocabulary must surely derive from the denotative and connotative baggage accumulated in the course of the history of its prior deployment. Any attempt to understand the global dimensions of the dissemination and circulation of modern cultural discourses must proceed, then, from some initial understanding of what was being disseminated and circulated. Without for a moment thinking that a global concept-676 0010-4175/05/676-699 $9.50

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The Resonance of “Culture”: Framing a Problem in Global Concept-History

Sartori

2005

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“…This is evident in the failure of both Sukarno and Socharto, both of whom sought th e development of Indon esia in the terms recommended by the systcm--that is, that an Indonesian identity needed developing, using the model of the modern Western state . See also Boyne (1990) and Wallcrstein (l990b). In any ca-.c, "culture" is made to be an important factor in Indon esia's dvelopment strategies by the agents of development, which makes it an important issue in understanding the "developm ent" of Indon esia.…”

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Fifty Years of Indonesian Development: "One Nation," Under Capitalism ...

McCormack

1999

JWSR

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In Indonesia much uncertainty remains in the wake of the dramatic changes that unfolded in the latter half of the l990's. By the end of the 20th century, the Indonesian economy was in ruins. The concept of democracy remained contested. The transportation and communication system that once at least minimally linked the diverse and at times disparate areas and peoples of the Indonesian archipelago into an Andersonian imagined national community collapsed, making more likely movements for regional autonomy, in turn, making the status of an Indonesian nation itself uncertain. One thing that is certain, however, is that Socharto, the "Father of Development," is history. As political and economic policy makers in Indonesia, the United States, and around the world, and more importantly, Indonesia's men, women, and children pick up the pieces, it is our responsibility to look back and consider the past fifty years.

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“…Hence, Wallerstein's position is that none of the three motives is autonomous and none constitutes a separate logic in and of itself. Other world-system theorists, however, write explicitly of an "economic logic" and a "political logic" (see, for example, Chase-Dunn 1992); the elaboration of a "cultural logic" has been virtually ignored until recently (Boyne 1990;Chase-Dunn 1992;Wallerstein 199Oa, 1990b). I think that both views are correct.…”

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World‐Systems Theory: Toward a Heuristic and Pedagogic Conceptual Tool*

Straussfogel

1997

Economic Geography

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While its proponents generally agree that a world‐system exists, with properties and dynamics that in the modern world function at a global scale, there is still a lack of consensus as to what those properties and dynamics are and as to what they mean in terms of an understanding of the past and an approach to the future. In this paper I seek to clarify some of the ambiguities in the definitions of world‐system concepts, particularly those surrounding the core‐periphery typology of structure. I then suggest a larger frame of reference for world‐systems theory derived from theoretical concepts in complex systems theory and augmenting Marxist conceptions of economic structure with the four‐capital model from ecological economics. I present a model for the structure of the modern world‐system that clarifies and builds on the core‐periphery structural definitions, along with an economic model by which “coreness” and “peripheryness” may be operationalized according to four sets of measures. Finally, I introduce a theory of the dynamic processes sustaining and effecting changes in this structure.

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Culture and the World-System

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The Resonance of “Culture”: Framing a Problem in Global Concept-History

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World‐Systems Theory: Toward a Heuristic and Pedagogic Conceptual Tool*

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