Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives / Edition 1

by Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones

Overview

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 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801884245
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	09/22/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, where he is the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems. He is the coauthor of Global Struggles and Social Change: From Prehistory to World Revolution in the Twenty-First Century.

Salvatore J. Babones is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Conducting Global Social Research
I. What is Globalization?
3. Global Social Change in the Long Run
4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization
5. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective
II. Global Inequality
6. Global inequality: An Introduction
7. Global Enegery Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications
III. Globalization and the Environment
8. Ecosystmes and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process
9. Global Social Change, Natural Resrouce Consumption, and Environmental Degradation
IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance
10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism
11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems Theory
V. Global Social Movements
12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization
13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement
14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil Society
VI. Democrazy and Democratization
15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy
16. Globalization and the Future of Democrazy
List of Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

A top pick for college-level holdings strong in international social studies . . . Perfect also for classroom discussion.
—Midwest Book Review

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

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

From the Publisher

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.

Development and Environment Abstracts of Public Administration

A top pick for college-level holdings strong in international social studies . . . Perfect also for classroom discussion.

Midwest Book Review

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.

British Journal of Sociology - Michael Redclift