2024-03-28T19:50:04Zhttps://escholarship.org/oaioai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5wh926w72015-08-21T16:41:50Zqt5wh926w7Aspects, Criteria, and Measurements of Stratification of Modern Societies in the Process of Intersocietal Selection. Translated by Dmytro KhutkyyKhutkyy, Dmytro2015-07-30The stratification of societies in the modern world system of societies is essential; however, it is not developed substantially. Therefore, with the aim to elaborate a coherent system of aspects, criteria, and measurements of stratification of modern societies, the author applies theoretical decomposition of the aspects of intersocietal stratification into criteria, develops its measurements, and argues the relevance of interpreting them as stratifying ones. As a result, ten aspects and twenty-five criteria with the respective measurements of stratification are discriminated.Societyworld system of societiesaspectscriteriaand measurementsstratification of societiesintersocietal selectionapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wh926w7publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3hb3k4v12015-08-21T16:41:21Zqt3hb3k4v1Empirical Indicators of Stratification of Modern Societies in the Process of Intersocietal Selection. Translated by Dmytro KhutkyyKhutkyy, Dmytro2015-07-30To stratify modern societies in the process of intersocietal selection, it is necessary to define the empirical indicators of such stratification. Therefore, to construct the classification of indicators of intersocietal stratification, the author reviews the existing indicators, develops new ones, and structures them into a coherent scheme. As a result of the research, a complex of forty empirical indicators of intersocietal stratification in the process of intersocietal selection has been elaborated.Societyworld system of societiesempirical indicatorsstratification of societiesintersocietal selectionapplication/pdfCC-BY-NC-SAeScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hb3k4v1publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt73x7f47w2011-07-03T18:58:16Zqt73x7f47wNorth-South Contradictions and bridges at the World Social ForumEllen ReeseMark HerkenrathChris Chase-DunnRebecca GiemErika GutierrezLinda KimChristine Petit2006-11-11This paper uses the results of a survey of participants at the World Social Forum that was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2005 to examine North/South issues and differences within the progressive sector of global civil society. Our purpose is to reflect on the problems of overcoming contradictions among and within counter-hegemonic transnational social movements in order to promote more effective cooperation in global social justice projects.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/73x7f47wpublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt9338z6fw2011-07-03T18:58:11Zqt9338z6fwAlliances and Divisions within the“Movement of Movements”:Survey Findings from the 2005 World Social ForumEllen ReeseMark HerkenrathChris Chase-DunnRebecca GiemErika GuttierrezLinda KimChristine Petit2006-11-27Little systematic research has been done on the social composition of the hundreds of thousands of people that attend the World Social Forum, or how their background characteristics and political affiliations might shape their political views. This paper addresses these questions through an analysis of original survey data of 640 participants of the 2005 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. We found that most WSF participants were young, from Brazil and neighboring countries, expressed radical views, and actively participated in social movements. Most also belonged to relatively privileged social groups; most were highly educated (a proxy measure for class), and “white” was the most common racial identity. Results from our logistic regression analysis indicate that there were statistically significant differences among respondents’ political goals and preferred strategies for social change based on their world system position, race, and membership in different types of organizations; there were not statistically significant differences in respondents’ political views based on their gender, age, or years of education however.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/9338z6fwpublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5hh8x1mp2011-07-03T18:58:06Zqt5hh8x1mpGlobal Conflict and Elite Integration in the 19th and Early 20th CenturiesBarr, KennethShoon LioChristopher SchmittAnders CarlsonKirk LawrenceJonathan KrauseYvonne HsuChristopher Chase-DunnThomas E. Reifer2006-08-02] This is a draft of a paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, in Montréal, Canada, at 10:30 am on August 11, 2006 at the session on World Systems organized by Farshad Araghi. It is a product of the Global Elites Research Group based at the Institute for Research on World-Systems, and has included among its members for 2005-06 Kenneth Barr, Anders Carlson, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Shoon Lio, Yvonne Hsu, Linda Kim, Jonathan Krause, Kirk Lawrence, Richard Niemeyer, Thomas Reifer, Christopher Schmitt, Nuray Terzi, and Jessica Tiu. The group has been supported by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation Grantapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hh8x1mppublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt65d7k1rz2011-07-03T18:58:01Zqt65d7k1rzRegions and Interaction Networks: A World-System PerspectiveChristopher Chase-DunnAndrew Jorgenson2001-02-03We contend that interaction networks are far superior to cultural area and regional approaches for bounding human social systems. This article discusses methodological and conceptual issues in bounding human social systems and their interactions with the natural environment and examines several recent innovations in information technology that facilitate the study of interaction networks.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/65d7k1rzpublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt74w1p38p2011-07-02T15:29:19Zqt74w1p38pNested Networks and Semiperipheral Development in the Prehistoric U.S.Southwest: a Comparative World-Systems ApproachChristopher Chase-Dunn2006-06-23This paper uses a nested interaction networks approach to interpret patterns of social change in the late prehistoric U.S. southwest in comparative and world historical perspective.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/74w1p38ppublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt8pp6d9m32011-07-02T11:51:55Zqt8pp6d9m3Upward Sweeps of Empire and City Growth Since the Bronze AgeChris Chase-DunnAlexis AlvarezHiroko InoueRichard NiemeyerAnders CarlsonBen FierroKirk Lawrence2006-08-11Abstract: This paper uses quantitative estimates of the sizes of cities and empires to tentatively identify upward sweeps in which uniquely large cities and empires emerged in the Central Political/military network since the Bronze Age, and it formulates a causal model to explain both the cyclical rise and fall of cities and empires and the upward sweepapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pp6d9m3publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7ns1p2q82011-07-02T11:51:50Zqt7ns1p2q8Upward Sweeps in The Historical Evolution of World-Systems2005-09-22New systems theories in international relations should study human interaction networks over very long periods of time (since the Paleolithic) and the interactions between the human systems and biological and geological systems in order to comprehend and explain the patterned changes of the past and the possible futures for humanity. World-systems are whole important human interaction networks including relations among polities, trade and communications networks. Human social evolution is about the rise of larger and more hierarchical and more complex societies and the growth and intensification of long-distance interaction networks. This paper outlines a research project on the growth/decline phases of cities and states since the Iron Age in order to comprehend the possibilities for future global state formation.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ns1p2q8publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt7vx436b62011-07-02T11:51:44Zqt7vx436b6Trade and the flag:integration and conflict in 19th and early 20th century deglobalizationChase-Dunn, ChrisAnders CarlsonChris SchmittShoon LioRichard NiemeyerRobert A. Hanneman2006-08-09The density and contours of networks of transnational and international economic integration are hypothesized by many theorists to be causally related to the patterns of cooperation and conflict. [1] The usual notion is that trade creates ties of symmetrical interdependence, which are likely to inhibit conflict. We seek to test this hypothesis in the 19th and early 20th century run-up to World War I. We examine the relationship between the structure of conflict and the contours of trade ties during the 19th century wave of globalization and deglobalization. How were the international trade ties related to the patterns of conflict and alliance that emerged during World War I? Germany was linked by trade, immigration and elite family connections with both Britain and the United States, and yet both World Wars I and II pitted the Germans against Britain and the U.S. But were the trade ties of Germany with its enemies large and significant relative to the total international trade, or were they insignificant elements that had little bearing on the proclivities of nation-states to fight one another? We replicate and improve upon earlier studies that used correlational analysis of nation-state dyads (e.g. Barbieri 2002) and wel also employ formal network analysis to test the earlier finding of a positive relationship between trade ties and enmity.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vx436b6publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0n46m71w2011-07-02T11:51:39Zqt0n46m71wThe Economic Ascent of China and the Potential for Restructuring the Capitalist World-EconomyPaul S. CiccantellStephen G. Bunker2005-01-18The economic ascent of China in the past two decades is the most dramatic change in the capitalist world-economy of this period. Analyses focus on changes in government control of the economy, the availability of low cost workers for export production, the historical characteristics of Chinese economy and society, and the role of the Chinese government as a developmental state. All highlight key parts of China’s economic ascent, but none addresses what we argue will be the critical component of future sustained economic ascent, if it is to take place in China: the role of raw materials and transport industries as generative sectors.These generative sectors in the most successful historical cases articulate domestic economic development with the creation of new systems of international economic and political relations, ultimately restructuring the capitalist world-economy in support of a nation’s ascent to core status and its ability to challenge the existing hegemon and other ascendant economies for hegemony. China is following the Japanese model of coastal greenfield heavy industrialization as state policies focus on deepening industrialization in steel, shipbuilding, and other heavy industries. However, following the models of earlier ascendant economies does not guarantee success. In this paper, we analyze the efforts underway in China to use steel, coal and other linked industries as driving forces for sustained economic ascent, and the potential consequences of these efforts for Chinaapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n46m71wpublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3s96b7992011-07-02T08:25:52Zqt3s96b799Global Party Formation in World Historical PerspectiveChristopher Chase-DunnEllen ReeseErika GutierrezRebecca GiemChristine PetitLinda Kim2006-07-27This is a study of contemporary global party formation in world historical perspective. Recent efforts to organize progressive forces are intended to have a democratizing effect on global governance and the operation of the world economy. The activists want to avoid the mistakes of the past while organizing an effective effort move in the direction of a more just global system. This new project needs to be understood in world historical context with attention to the implications of the history of transnational social movements, world revolutions and the evolution of global governance over the last four centuries.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s96b799publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3qp617c22011-07-02T08:19:35Zqt3qp617c2Middlemen and marcher states in Central Asia and East/West Empire SynchronyChristopher Chase-DunnThomas D. HallRichard NiemeyerAlexis AlvarezHiroko InoueKirk LawrenceAnders CarlsonBenjamin FierroMatthew KanashiroHala Sheikh-MohamedLaura Young2006-11-01East, West, Central and South Asia originally formed somewhat separate cultural zones and networks of interaction among settlements and polities, but during the late Bronze and early Iron Ages these largely separate regional systems came into increasing interaction with one another. Central Asian nomadic steppe pastoralist polities and agricultural oasis settlements mediated the East/West and North/South interactions. Earlier research has discovered that the growth/decline phases of empires in East and West Asia became synchronous around 140 BCE and that this synchrony lasted until about 1800 CE. This paper develops the comparative world-systems perspective on Central Asia and examines the growth and decline of settlements, empires and steppe confederations in Central Asia to test the hypothesis that the East/West empire synchrony may have been caused by linkages that occurred with and across Central Asia.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qp617c2publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0tt5s1cv2011-07-01T07:07:57Zqt0tt5s1cvPower and Size:Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-SystemsChase-Dunn, ChrisAlvarez, AlexisPasciuti, DanHall, Thomas D.2002-03-20Abstract: This paper contains an overview of earlier research on city and empire growth/decline phases and new evidence on the relationship between urban growth and the rise and fall of empires in six world regions. We find that empires and cities grow and decline together in some regions but not others. We also examine the temporal correlations between growth/decline phases of largest and second largest cities and empires within regions. Do large empires grow at the expense of other large states within a region or are there periods of regional growth in which states (and cities) are growing together?application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tt5s1cvpublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt77b447bx2011-03-19T01:03:11Zqt77b447bxThe Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: A Quantitative ReflectionChase-Dunn, ChrisGiem, RebeccaJorgenson, AndrewReifer, ThomasRogers, JohnLio, Shoon2002-07-02Abstract: Revised estimates of world GDP, population and GDP per capita published by Angus Maddison (2001) make possible a quantitative reexamination of the trajectory of the United States in world historical perspective and comparisons between the U.S. economic hegemony of the twentieth century with the Dutch hegemony of the seventeenth century and the British hegemony of the nineteenth century. We also track the trajectories of challengers to reflect on the future of hegemonic rivalry.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/77b447bxpublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt63s2z9s02011-03-19T00:26:20Zqt63s2z9s0World-systems in the Biogeosphere:Three Thousand Years of Urbanization, Empire Formation and Climate ChangeChase-Dunn, ChrisAlvarez, AlexisPasciuti, Dan2002-10-10Abstract: World-systems are human interaction networks that display oscillations of expansion and contraction, with occasional large expansions that bring formerly separate regional systems into systemic intercourse with one another. These waves of expansion, now called globalization, have, in the last two centuries, created a single integrated intercontinental political economy in which all national societies are strongly linked. This paper investigates the “pulsations” of regional interaction networks (world-systems) in Afroeurasia over the past 3000 years. The purpose is to determine the causes of a fascinating synchrony that emerged between East Asia and the distant West Asian/Mediterranean region, but did not involve the intermediate South Asian region. The hypothesized causes of this synchrony are climate change, epidemics, trade cycles, and the incursions of Central Asian steppe nomads. This paper formulates a strategy of data gathering, system modeling, and hypothesis testing that can allow us to discover which of these causes were the most important in producing synchrony as the Afroeurasian world-system came into being. To be presented at the conference on “Nature, Raw Materials and Political Economy” held in honor of Stephen Bunker’s contribution to political ecology, Madison, November 2, 2002. Thanks to Tom Hall for helpful comments. V. 10-30-02, (7707 words) This paper is available on the web at http://irows.ucr.edu/papers/irows11/irows11.htmapplication/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/63s2z9s0publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt5rk237f52011-03-19T00:16:25Zqt5rk237f5City systems and world-systems:Four millennia of city growth and declineChase-Dunn, ChrisManning, Susan2002-05-14This is a study of the growth of cities in four regions over the past 4000 years. We discuss changes in the relationship between political/military power, economic power andcity systems with special attention to the rise of European hegemony and the subsequent rise of East Asian world cities.We compare East Asian urban growth with the original heartland of cities in West Asia and North Africa, as well as Europe and the subcontinent of South Asia. This reveals the trajectories of city growth and decline and the relative importance of the different regions over time.And we reexamine the hypothesis of synchronicities of city growth and decline across distant regions as the Afro-eurasian world-system became more and more integrated.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/5rk237f5publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt54s470cc2011-03-18T23:59:45Zqt54s470ccWaves of Structural Globalization since 1800: New Results on Investment GlobalizationChase-Dunn, ChrisJorgenson, AndrewGiem, RebeccaLio, ShoonReifer, ThomasRogers, John2002-08-14This paper discusses research that is designed to examine the historical trajectory of structural globalization as an attribute of the whole world-system. Did the globalized world economy arrive all at once in a rapid and recent transition from national to global economic networks? Or is the process of international integration a long-term trend that has been going up for centuries only to be noticed recently because it has reached such a high peak? Or, alternatively, is globalization a cyclical phenomenon in which the world-system alternates between periods of national autarchy followed by periods of international economic and political integration?application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/54s470ccpublicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt3s38g8m52011-03-18T23:20:55Zqt3s38g8m5US Hegemony and Biotechnology:The geopolitics of new lead technologyChase-Dunn, ChrisReifer, Thomas2002-06-26The three hegemonies of the modern world-system have been the Dutch in the seventeenth century, the British in the nineteenth century and the hegemony of the United States in the twentieth century. Sociologists and political scientists have carefully studied the process of hegemonic rise and decline.Recent research by Rennstich (2001) retools Arrighi’s (1994) formulation of the organizational evolutions that have accompanied the emergence of larger and larger hegemons over the last six centuries. Modelski and Thompson (1996) argued that the British successfully managed to enjoy two “power cycles,” one in the eighteenth and another in the nineteenth centuries. With this precedent in mind Rennstich considers the possibility that the US might succeed itself in the twenty-first century. Rennstich’s analysis of the organizational, cultural and political requisites of the contemporary new lead industries – information technology and biotechnology – imply that the United States has a large comparative advantage that will most probably lead to another round of U.S. pre-eminence in the world-system. But important resistance to genetically engineered products has arisen as consumers and environmentalists worry about the unintended consequences of introducing radically new organisms into the biosphere. This paper will examine the agricultural biotechnology industry as a new lead industry and will consider its possible future impact on the distribution of power in the world-system. This will entail an examination of the loci and timing of private and publicly funded research and development, biotechnology firms that are developing and selling products, and the emergence of national and global policies that are intended to regulate and test genetically engineered products. The recent history of environmental impacts of genetically engineered products will be reviewed, as well as the contentious literature about the supposed risks of agricultural biotechnology. Several scenarios regarding the timing of the onset of biotech profitability and their potential impact on US economic centrality will be developed, and data on both the business history and the emergence of resistance will be employed to examine the likelihood of these possible scenarios.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s38g8m5publicationoai:escholarship.org:ark:/13030/qt0p5244s12011-03-18T21:52:02Zqt0p5244s1Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) StudiesChase-Dunn, ChrisGills, Barry2003-04-30Abstract: The world(-)systems* perspective provides a useful framework for discerning the continuities and discontinuities (emergent properties) of long historical waves of global integration (globalization) and social resistance to (capitalist) globalization.. The capitalist world(-)system has experienced long cycles of economic and political integration for centuries and these have been interspersed by periods of social resistance to capitalist globalization, in which disadvantaged, exploited and dominated groups contest the hierarchies that global capitalism and hegemonic states have constructed. In the contemporary period the intensification of capitalist globalization has been accompanied by a strengthening of social resistance and the emergence of new social movements that resist neoliberal globalization and attempt to build alternatives. Careful study of these long waves of globalization and resistance can provide us with important insights that are relevant to the task of building a more humane and democratic global commonwealth in the 21st century. Research and teaching on the role of the new social movements and the historical dialectic between globalization, resistance, and democratization should be a central aspect of the new critical Global(ization) Studies.application/pdfpubliceScholarship, University of Californiahttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/0p5244s1publication