Facing An Unequal World: Challenges for Global Sociology by Raquel Sosa El?zaga

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This edited volume explores significant themes in modern, global sociology, including inequality, structures of power, conceptions of justice and sustainable futures.

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"Raquel Sosa Elizaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading."- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale UniversityOver recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global inequality. Arguably the biggest challenge of the 21st Century is the confrontation and eventual elimination of the processes of structural inequality that affect these millions of human beings today. Facing an Unequal World tackles and critically examines key issues and challenges for global sociology across these interrelated themes: The dimensions of inequality and the configurations of structural inequalities and structures of power Conceptions of justice in different historical and cultural traditions Conflicts on environmental justice and sustainable futures The social injuries of inequality, and overcoming inequalities Written by a selection of international key sociologists and academics, this is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in sociology alike.

Author Biography

Raquel Sosa Elízaga has degrees in Sociology, Latin American Studies, and PhD in History, National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has been Full Time Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, since January, 1976. Past positions held include:- Vice President of Program of the International Sociological Association, from 2010 to 2014- A member of its Program Committee from 1998 to 2002- A member of its Executive Committee, from 2006 to 2010- President of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología, from 1985 to 1987- A member of its Council of Ex Presidents, since 2013- Secretary of Social Development and of Culture in the Mexico City Government, from 2000 to 2005, and from 2005 to 2006.Her publications include Educación y exclusión (UNAM, 2017), "Reflexiones sobre la tradición sociológica, los dilemas de nuestro tiempo y el porvenir" en Castañeda, Dávila et al, El futuro de las ciencias sociales en un entorno globalizado (UNAM, 2017); Hacia la recuperación de la soberanía educativa en América Latina: conciencia crítica y programa (UNAM/CLACSO, 2012); Pensar con cabeza propia. Educación y pensamiento crítico en América Latina (CLACSO, 2011); Cuadernos del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales 45(4) (2011); Co author with Irene Sánchez, América Latina: los desafíos del pensamiento crítico (Siglo XXI, 2004).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction - Raquel Sosa ElízagaPart One: Capitalism and Inequality: Globalized Economies and Fractured SocietiesChapter 2: When Extractive Logics Rule: Proliferating Expulsions - Saskia SassenChapter 3: Resilience, Resistance and Rewiring the World Economy: A View from the South - Ari SitasChapter 4: Stratification Requiescat in Pace: Paradigm Shift: From ′Stratification′ and Mobility to Inequality - Göran TherbornPart Two: Economic, Territorial and Social Dimensions of InequalityChapter 5: Globalization, Uneven Economic Development, Inequality and Poverty: The Interactive Effects Between Position in the Modern World System and Domestic Stratification Systems - Harold KerboChapter 6: Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World - Habibul Haque KhondkerChapter 7: Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress - Carlos Walter Porto-GoncalvesChapter 8: Climate Change and Vulnerable Urban Groups: Comparative Analysis of Taipei and Kaohsiung - Keng-Ming Hsu & Hsin-Huang Michael HsiaoChapter 9: The Coming of the New Class Society: Gender Matters - Chizuko UenoChapter 10: Duel of the Dualisms: Production and Reproduction Reconfiguring - Susan A. McDanielChapter 11: The Historic Environment in Opposition to Social Inequalities - Hiroyuki TorigoeChapter 12: The Capability Approach, Social Development and Human Rights - Jean-Michel BonvinChapter 13: Two Dissident Ways of Reading on Inequality - Ana Esther CeceñaChapter 14: Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study - Sarah El Jamal & Sari HanafiPart Three: Reforms, Resistance and Alternatives: New Ways Towards Social JusticeChapter 15: The Limits of Reform in Liberal Democracies - Walden BelloChapter 16: Tensions Between Development, Public Policies to Confront Poverty/Inequality and the Defense of Pluriculturality in South America - Edgardo LanderChapter 17: Inequitable Access to Citizenship in Democratic States: An Exploration of the Limits of Gendered Social Policies for the Attainment of Gender Inequality - Grace KhunouChapter 18: Collective Right to Life and New Social Justice: the Case of the Bolivian Indigenous Movement - Paulo Henrique MartinsChapter 19: Demanding Justice: Popular Protests in China - Chih-Jou Jay ChenChapter 20: Thomas Piketty and the Marikana Massacre - Peter AlexanderChapter 21: From Tekel to Gezi Resistance in Turkey: Possibilities for a Combined Rights Movement - Aylin TopalChapter 22: Socio-ecological Inequality and the Democratization Process - José Esteban Castro

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Raquel Sosa has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading. -- Immanuel Wallerstein

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Raquel Sosa has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading.

Details ISBN1526435578 Series Sage Studies in International Sociology Year 2018 ISBN-10 1526435578 ISBN-13 9781526435576 Format Paperback Subtitle Challenges for Global Sociology Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 360 DEWEY 301 Publication Date 2018-04-06 Short Title Facing an Unequal World Language English UK Release Date 2018-04-06 NZ Release Date 2018-04-06 Author Raquel Sosa Elízaga Alternative 9781526435569 Edited by Raquel Sosa Elízaga Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2018-04-05 We've got this

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