Issues of Cultural Studies in Immanuel Wallerstein’s Works

Abstract

The article examines Immanuel Wallerstein’s views, set out in a number of his articles, on some processes of cultural development. The multidimensional nature of the concept of culture, the phenomenon of national culture, and the opportunity of constituting a world culture are studied. The article also focuses on the issue of universalization of culture and on correlation of this process with the globalization. Connection between the fundamental topic of his research, the world-system approach and its applicability to an analysis of the modern world, and the interpretation of specific problems of cultural knowledge is shown.