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.
About the Author
V. Sivitski
Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Belarus
MA (Philos.), Junior Scientific Researcher
Belarus
MA (Philos.), Junior Scientific Researcher
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