Overview
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 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California-Riverside) ,
Salvatore J. Babones (Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9780801884238
ISBN 10: 0801884233
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 17 November 2006
Recommended Age: From 13
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p>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 (01/01/2008)
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
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
Author Information
Christopher Chase-Dunn is a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside. Salvatore J. Babones is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.
