
Global Social Change
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
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Global Social Change
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
About this book
This informative and exciting volume brings together accomplished sociologists and scholars to offer an introduction to ways of studying and understanding global social change.
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.
In this informative and exciting volume, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones bring together accomplished senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer an introduction to ways of studying and understanding global social change.
In both newly written essays and previously published articles from the Journal of World Systems Research, the contributors employ historical and comparative social science to examine the development of institutions of global governance, the rise and fall of hegemonic core states, transnational social movements, and global environmental challenges. They compare postâWorld 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"âReaganism-Thatcherismâand discuss issues of gender and global inequalities.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Conducting Global Social Research
- I. What Is Globalization?
- II. Global Inequality
- III. Globalization and the Environment
- IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance
- V. Global Social Movements
- VI. Democracy and Democratization
- List of Contributors
- Index