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Sage Studies in International Sociology Ser.: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World : Towards the Futures We Want by Markus S. Schulz (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSAGE Publications, The Limited
ISBN-101526463989
ISBN-139781526463982
eBay Product ID (ePID)9038714329
Product Key Features
Number of Pages128 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGlobal Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World : Towards the Futures We Want
SubjectGlobalization, Sociology / General, Comparative Politics, Political Freedom
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorMarkus S. Schulz
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science
SeriesSage Studies in International Sociology Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal301.072
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World - Markus S. SchulzFutures We Want: Walking Back the Cat, Positives, Negatives, Ambigious, Balance - Jan Nederveen Pieterse What Kind of World Can Weather Climate Change? Some Philosophical and Sociological Challenges - Todd Gitlin The Open Society and Its Contradictions: Towards a Critical Sociology of Global Inequalities - Stephan LessenichMe san aba: The Africa We Want and an African-centred Approach to Knowledge Production - Akosua Adomako AmpofoPueblos in Movement: Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives from Latin America - Nora Garita BonillaPost-Islamist Democracy - Asef BayatRelocalizing the National and Horizontalizing the Global - Saskia SassenSocial Movements: The Core of General Sociology - Michel WieviorkaEpilogue - Alain Touraine
SynopsisA diverse collection of regional experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet., The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounting pressures of social and ecological problems are met by a confluence of intellectual trends that allow the questioning of entrenched assumptions and the unleashing of a forward-oriented sociological imagination. In Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World, a diverse collection of international experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet.Topics include: Global Inequality Multipolar Globalization Climate Change Contentious Politics and Social Movements Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives in Latin America An African-centred approach to Knowledge Production Post-Islamist Democracy Based on the revised papers of the Opening and Closing Plenaries of the Third ISA Forum of Sociology in Vienna, Austria, July 2016, which Markus Schulz organized on the theme "The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World.", The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounting pressures of social and ecological problems are met by a confluence of intellectual trends that allow the questioning of entrenched assumptions and the unleashing of a forward-oriented sociological imagination. In Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World, a diverse collection of international experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet. Topics include: Global Inequality Multipolar Globalization Climate Change Contentious Politics and Social Movements Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives in Latin America An African-centred approach to Knowledge Production Post-Islamist Democracy Based on the revised papers of the Opening and Closing Plenaries of the Third ISA Forum of Sociology in Vienna, Austria, July 2016, which Markus Schulz organized on the theme "The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World."
LC Classification NumberHM571
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