by Georges Balandier · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213605708
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«Le Grand Système» is the essay by Georges Balandier, published by Fayard in paperback, with 274 pages, in French.
Balandier argues that science, technology and economic expansionism have opened new worlds: life sciences, computing, intelligent systems and communication. All share the logic of a planetary Grand System, the real face of globalisation. Understanding that logic restores initiative in the face of uncontrolled power-to-do.
Work originally published in French in 2001; the Fayard paperback edition has 274 pages.
For readers interested in anthropology, sociology and critical analysis of globalisation and social change.
Georges Balandier was a French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist noted for his research on Sub-Saharan Africa. Balandier was born in Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont. He was a professor at the Sorbonne, and is a member of the Center for African Studies, a research center of the École pratique des hautes études. He held for many years the Editorship of Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires de France. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1976. He died on 5 October 2016 at the age of 95.
