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USING THE SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM APPROACH

Abstract

The article reviews world-system approach research results based on the social network analysis as a methodological tool to identify structural characteristics of world-systems that go beyond the differentiation between core, semi-periphery and periphery, as is traditional for the world-system approach. This leads to a more complex set of categories and concepts in the world-system approach which includeds the categories of weak and strong periphery/semi-periphery etc. Using the social network analysis gives the world-system approach additional heuristic potential to describe the highly organized structure and dynamics of a world-system; however, this method is largely used to verify basic intuitive structuralist provisions of the world-system approach. At the same time, a network is used as methodological tool to conceptualize a world-system and is not regarded ontologically self-sufficient as in the network approach.
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ISSN 2524-2369 (Print)
ISSN 2524-2377 (Online)