Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences.

“…2-volume work includes approximately 1,200 entries in A-Z order, reviewing the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory. In addition, nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy; management and business; human geography; politics; sociology; law; psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense.…”

Escaping homelands with limited employment and tertiary education opportunities: outbound student mobility from post-Soviet countries by Chankseliani, M

“…I place the results in the context of scholarship on international student mobility and world-systems theory to discuss the implications for individual states and individual students.…”

Hegemony and inequality in global science: problems of the center-periphery model by Marginson, S, Xu, X

“…The paper critiques the dominant interpretation of relations of power in science, world-systems theory with its center-periphery model. This theory, which is statist and economic determinist, fails to grasp the growth and pluralization of global science, and its relation with national science systems. …”

China ‘goes out’ in a centre/periphery world: Incentivising international publications in the humanities and social sciences by Xu, X

“…The world of academic knowledge is not a level playing field but more closely approximates the centre–periphery dynamic described in world systems theory. This study explores the influence of publication incentives in the context of a centre–periphery world. …”

Moving beyond centre-periphery science: towards an ecology of knowledge by Marginson, S, Xu, X

“…The paper critiques the dominant imaginary of world science, world-systems theory with its centre-periphery model. This theory fails to grasp the dynamics of the specifically global system, and radically under-estimates agency outside the ‘centre’ countries, as shown by the manner in which nation-states and autonomous researchers on the ‘semi-periphery’ and ‘periphery’ have been able to rapidly develop science. …”

文化传播、人群移动和文化影响——研究文化交流的方法理论和西南地区与北方草原文化的关系 by Hein, A

“…The theories proposed range from diffusionist-migrationist explanations to notions of globalization and world-system theories as they have become popular in recent years. …”