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Tables of Contents for The End of the World As We Know It
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Uncertainty and Creativity: Premises and Conclusions
1
6
Part I THE WORLD OF CAPITALISM
Social Science and the Communist Interlude, or Interpretations of Contemporary History
7
12
The ANC and South Africa: The Past and Future of Liberation Movements in the World-System
19
15
The Rise of East Asia, or The World-System in the Twenty-First Century
34
23
Coda: The So-called Asian Crisis: Geopolitics in the Longue Duree
49
8
States? Sovereignty? The Dilemmas of Capitalists in an Age of Transition
57
19
Ecology and Capitalist Costs of Production: No Exit
76
11
Liberalism and Democracy: Freres Ennemis?
87
17
Integration to What? Marginalization from What?
104
14
Social Change? Change Is Eternal. Nothing Ever Changes
118
19
Part II THE WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE
Social Science and Contemporary Society: The Vanishing Guarantees of Rationality
137
20
Differentiation and Reconstruction in the Social Sciences
157
11
Eurocentrism and Its Avatars: The Dilemmas of Social Science
168
17
The Structures of Knowledge, or How Many Ways May We Know?
185
7
The Rise and Future Demise of World-Systems Analysis
192
10
Social Science and the Quest for a Just Society
202
18
The Heritage of Sociology, the Promise of Social Science
220
33
Notes
253
16
Permissions
269
2
Index
271