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This paper examines the dissertation of Immanuel Wallerstein on global social injustice. It explores the Media distortion and under representation of the movement towards a more socially just society. The paper describes Wallerstein's social movement, which is unknown in the Western World. The author illustrates that the world is dynamic and ever changing place, where power shifts, rises, and nations fall.

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"Immanuel Wallerstein was born in 1930. he received his BA from Columbia in 1951, his MA in 1954 and his PhD is 1959. He has also received honorary doctoral degrees from place like the university of Paris, The National University in Mexico, and the University of Brussels, just to name a few. He has been published extensively and since 1976, has been a Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University (SUNY), and the Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. His dissertation title was "Road to independence, Ghana and the Ivory Coast." His early interests lied in the strugglers in Africa for independence, however, a look at his published work shows that his focus gradually widened to include social justice worldwide. Utopistics is a short book, only about 90 pages. However, in that short period, he lays out what has happened, what is happening now, and a vision for the future with regards to the movement for worldwide social justice. Although Wallerstein does not seem to hold much hope for a more socially and environmentally just society, there are plenty of reasons to believe that such a world is possible. The view may look bleak inside the United States, but labor movements, women's movements, and justice movements are taking hold all over the globe."

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