“世界体系”是70年代后期出现的“世界体系理论”的基本概念。这个理论的创始人,美国纽约州立宾汉顿大学的社会学教授伊曼纽尔·沃勒斯坦早年主要研究非洲问题,在基本观点上与依附论十分接近。1974年他出版了《现代世界体系》(现已出版两卷),详细阐述了从1450年以来,在世界资本主义发展的历程和基本逻辑,奠定了世界体系理论的基础,并在理论界引起了极大的反响。 The “world system” is the basic concept of “world system theory” that emerged in the late 1970s. Emanuel Wallerstein, the founder of this theory and a professor of sociology at Binghamton University in New York State, mainly studied African problems in his early years and was basically close to dependency theory. He published the “Modern World System” (now published in two volumes) in 1974, detailing the history and basic logic of the development of world capitalism from 1450 onwards, laying the foundations of the world system theory and causing it in theorists A great response.