Christopher K. Chase-Dunn (born January 10, 1944,

Corvallis, Oregon Corvallis ( ) is a city and the county seat of Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2020 United ...

) is an American sociologist best known for his contributions to

world-systems theory World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective)Immanuel Wallerstein, (2004), "World-systems Analysis." In ''World System History'', ed. George Modelski, in ''Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems'' (E ...

Education and career

Chase-Dunn earned his PhD in 1975 at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

(studying under

John W. Meyer John Wilfred Meyer (born 1935) is a sociologist and emeritus professor at Stanford University. Beginning in the 1970s and continuing to the present day, Meyer has contributed fundamental ideas to the field of sociology, especially in the areas ...

) and has taught at The

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

(1975–2000) and at the

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban distr ...

(2000–present). He is a Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

and served as President (2002–06) of Research Committee 02 (Economy and Society) of the International Sociological Association from 2002 to 2006. He was chair of the Section on International Political Economy of the International Studies Association from 1984 to 1986, and chair of the Section on the Political Economy of the

World-System A world-system is a socioeconomic system, under systems theory, that encompasses part or all of the globe, detailing the aggregate structural result of the sum of the interactions between polities. World-systems are usually larger than single s ...

of the

American Sociological Association The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fif ...

in 1982. He founded the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside. He is founding editor of the ''

Journal of World-Systems Research The ''Journal of World-Systems Research'' (''JWSR'') is a biannual, open access, peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of world-systems analysis, established in 1995 by founding editor Christopher Chase-Dunn at the Institute for World-Sy ...

'', which is the official journal of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association.

Publications

Chase-Dunn is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over a dozen books, including most notably ''Global Formation: Structures of The World-Economy'', a major theoretical synthesis and restatement of the world-systems approach to the study of social change.

Bibliography

* ''Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy''. London, Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1999. * ''Socialist States in the World System'' (ed.) Beverly Hills and London: Sage, 1982. * ''Global Social Change. Historical and Comparative Perspectives'' (with S. B. Babones). Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. * ''Rise and Demise. Comparing World Systems'' (with Th. D. Hall). Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997.

References

External links

Ch. Chase-Dunn
is a member of ''

Social Evolution & History ''Social Evolution & History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on the development of human societies in the past, present, and future. In addition to original research articles, ''Social Evolution & History'' includes critical notes an ...

'' journal {{DEFAULTSORT:Chase-Dunn, Christopher Living people 1944 births World system scholars American sociologists Stanford University alumni Johns Hopkins University faculty University of California, Riverside faculty Writers from Corvallis, Oregon Writers about globalization