Global Inequalities

York William Bradshaw, Michael Wallace

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1996
• Print ISBN: 9780803990609
• eBook ISBN: 9781452221083
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Presents a global view of stratification in an interesting but theoretically sound way, using an effective combination of academic works, lively stories, and news reports. Helps to educate the social science major or general student about social and cultural differences across the world, and teaches about growing global interdependence and how this is connected to contemporary social problems.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• About the Authors
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1 - The Reality of Inequality : Stories from Around the World
• A Global Village ?
• A Few of the Players
• Using Sociology to Study Global Inequalities
• Questioning Assumptions
• How This Book Is Organized
• Chapter 2 - An Unequal World
• The Death of Children
• Other Forms of Inequality
• Contemporary Global Trends : A World of Changes and Contradictions
• Conclusions
• Chapter 3 - Constructing a Model of Global Inequalities
• Two Traditional Explanations for Global Inequality
• Modernization Theory : Blaming the Victim
• World-System Theory : Blaming Outside Actors
• Combining External and Internal Explanation of Global Inequality
• Application to World Regions
• Chapter 4 - Africa : A Continued Decline?
• A Land of Contradictions
• Africa' s History : A Brief Look
• Contemporary Life in Africa
• Strong Societies and Weak States
• The Persistence of Grinding Poverty
• Battles for the Body
• "Presidents for Life/'Sort Of
• Becoming Irrelevant to Others
• Reduced to Symbols
• Africa in Theoretical Perspective
• Chapter 5 - Asia: An Emerging Giant
• Bats , Balls , and Whips
• Magic Dragons ?
• Late Industrialization
• Economic Growth and a High Level of Equality ? The Japanese Case
• Inequality in South Korea , Hong Kong , Taiwan , and Singapore
• China : From Mao Jackets to Calvin Klein Jeans
• A Land of Paradox
• Moving Beyond the Graveyard of Vietnam
• Asia in Theoretical Perspective
• Chapter 6 - Europe : United or Divided ?
• Crumbling Walls
• Why 1989?
• The Rhetoric Is Unity ; What Is the Reality ?
• Welfare States : Benevolent or Burdensome ?
• The Dark Side of Europe
• Lessons Unlearned : The Return of "Little Hitlers "
• The Roller Coaster of War
• Europe in Theoretical Perspective
• Chapter 7 - The Americas : Reinventing Ourselves
• The Road to Rio: Environmental Apocalypse Now?
• The Lessons of Rio: Is Sustainable Growth Possible ?
• A Question of Sovereignty
• Economic Consolidation in the Americas
• The Americas in Theoretical Perspective
• Chapter 8 - Creating a Better World
• Summarizing Trends and Changes
• Creating Positive Changes
• Forcing Change from the Outside : What Is Justified ?
• Creating Positive Social Changes : What Individuals Can Do
• References
• Index