Facing an unequal world :  challenges for global sociology / 
edited by Raquel Sosa Elizaga. 
 - xv, 338 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - SAGE studies in international sociology ;  64 .
 - Sage studies in international sociology ;  64. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1: Introduction<br/>Raquel Sosa Elízaga; <br/>Part One: Capitalism and Inequality: Globalized Economies and Fractured Societies; <br/>Chapter 2: When Extractive Logics Rule: Proliferating Expulsions<br/>Saskia Sassen; <br/>Chapter 3: Resilience, Resistance and Rewiring the World Economy: A View from the South<br/>Ari Sitas; <br/>Chapter 4: Stratification Requiescat in Pace: Paradigm Shift: From 'Stratification' and Mobility to Inequality<br/>Göran Therborn; <br/>Part Two: Economic, Territorial and Social Dimensions of Inequality; <br/>Chapter 5: Globalization, Uneven Economic Development, Inequality and Poverty: The Interactive Effects Between Position in the Modern World System and Domestic Stratification Systems<br/>Harold Kerbo; <br/>Chapter 6: Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World<br/>Habibul Haque Khondker; <br/>Chapter 7: Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress<br/>Carlos Walter Porto-Goncalves; <br/>Chapter 8: Climate Change and Vulnerable Urban Groups: Comparative Analysis of Taipei and Kaohsiung<br/>Keng-Ming Hsu & Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao; <br/>Chapter 9: The Coming of the New Class Society: Gender Matters<br/>Chizuko Ueno; <br/>Chapter 10: Duel of the Dualisms: Production and Reproduction Reconfiguring<br/>Susan A. McDaniel; <br/>Chapter 11: The Historic Environment in Opposition to Social Inequalities<br/>Hiroyuki Torigoe; <br/>Chapter 12: The Capability Approach, Social Development and Human Rights<br/>Jean-Michel Bonvin; <br/>Chapter 13: Two Dissident Ways of Reading on Inequality<br/>Ana Esther Ceceña; <br/>Chapter 14: Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study<br/>Sarah El Jamal & Sari Hanafi;<br/>Part Three: Reforms, Resistance and Alternatives: New Ways Towards Social Justice; <br/>Chapter 15: The Limits of Reform in Liberal Democracies<br/>Walden Bello; <br/>Chapter 16: Tensions Between Development, Public Policies to Confront Poverty/Inequality and the Defense of Pluriculturality in South America<br/>Edgardo Lander; <br/>Chapter 17: Inequitable Access to Citizenship in Democratic States: An Exploration of the Limits of Gendered Social Policies for the Attainment of Gender Inequality<br/>Grace Khunou; <br/>Chapter 18: Collective Right to Life and New Social Justice: the Case of the Bolivian Indigenous Movement<br/>Paulo Henrique Martins; <br/>Chapter 19: Demanding Justice: Popular Protests in China<br/>Chih-Jou Jay Chen; <br/>Chapter 20: Thomas Piketty and the Marikana Massacre<br/>Peter Alexander; <br/>Chapter 21: From Tekel to Gezi Resistance in Turkey: Possibilities for a Combined Rights Movement<br/>Aylin Topal;<br/>Chapter 22: Socio-ecological Inequality and the Democratization Process<br/>José Esteban Castro 
<br/><br/> Sociology in the modern world faces many challenges. This edited volume explores significant themes including inequality, structures of power, conceptions of justice and sustainable futures, forming a critical examination across twenty-five individually authored chapters. This text forms part of SAGE Studies in International Sociology series (SSIS).-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-1-5264-3557-6 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>SOCIOLOGY.<br/>INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.<br/>INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS<br/>SOCIOLOGY.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM 585 F33 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301