Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Christopher Chase-Dunn, Salvatore J. Babones

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 382
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 12
2. Conducting Global Social Research......Page 19
I. What Is Globalization?......Page 42
3. Global Social Change in the Long Run......Page 44
4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization......Page 70
5. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective......Page 90
II. Global Inequality......Page 118
6. Global Inequality: An Introduction......Page 120
7. Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications......Page 146
III. Globalization and the Environment......Page 170
8. Ecosystems and World-Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process......Page 172
9. Global Social Change, Natural Resource Consumption, and Environmental Degradation......Page 187
IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance......Page 210
10. Spatial and Other “Fixes” of Historical Capitalism......Page 212
11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems Theory......Page 224
V. Global Social Movements......Page 250
12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women’s Mobilization......Page 252
13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti–Corporate Globalization Movement......Page 280
14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil Society......Page 300
VI. Democracy and Democratization......Page 326
15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy......Page 328
16. Globalization and the Future of Democracy......Page 347
List of Contributors......Page 374
D......Page 378
I......Page 379
O......Page 380
T......Page 381
W......Page 382