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Global social change : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones
- Conducting global social research / Salvatore J. Babones
- What is globalization?
- Global social change in the long run / Thomas D. Hall, Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Competing conceptions of globalization / Leslie Sklair
- Globalization : a world-systems perspective / Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Global inequality
- Global inequality : an introduction / Jonathan H. Turner, Salvatore J. Babones
- Global energy inequalities : exploring the long-term implications / Bruce Podobnik
- Globalization and the environment
- Ecosystems and world systems : accumulation as an ecological process / Alf Hornborg
- Global social change, natural resource consumption, and environmental degradation / Andrew W. Jorgenson
- Globalization, hegemony, and global governance
- Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi
- Contemporary intracore relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan
- Global social movements
- Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. Moghadam
- Environmentalism and the trajectory of the anti-corporate globalization movement / Frederick H. Buttel, Kenneth A. Gould
- National and global foundations of global civil society / Jackie Smith, Dawn Wiest
- Transnational social movements and democratic socialist parties in the semiperiphery : on to global democracy / Terry Boswell, Christopher Chase-Dunn
- Globalization and the future of democracy / John Markoff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801884233
- 0801884241
- OCLC:
- 62322253
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801884245 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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