Global Social Change
«A top pick for college-level holdings strong in international social studies... Perfect also for classroom discussion. Midwest Book Review 2007 This collection brings together senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer and introduction for ways of studying and understanding global social change. Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and Environment 2008 The collections of essays... represents the most scholarly contribution to these discussions in that it deliberately sets out to review the history of a debate, drawing widely on the sociological literature in particular. -- Michael Redclift British Journal of Sociology 2008»
The essays in Global Social Change explore globalization from a world-systems perspective, untangling its many contested meanings. This perspective offers insights into globalization's gradual and uneven growth throughout the course of human social evolution. Les mer
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They compare post-World War II globalization with the great wave of economic integration that occurred in the late nineteenth century, analyze the rise of the political ideology of the "globalization project"-Reaganism-Thatcherism-and discuss issues of gender and global inequalities.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780801884245
- Utgivelsesår
- 2006
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«A top pick for college-level holdings strong in international social studies... Perfect also for classroom discussion. Midwest Book Review 2007 This collection brings together senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer and introduction for ways of studying and understanding global social change. Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and Environment 2008 The collections of essays... represents the most scholarly contribution to these discussions in that it deliberately sets out to review the history of a debate, drawing widely on the sociological literature in particular. -- Michael Redclift British Journal of Sociology 2008»