TY - BOOK AU - Sosa Elízaga,Raquel TI - Facing an unequal world: challenges for global sociology T2 - SAGE studies in international sociology SN - 978-1-5264-3557-6 AV - HM 585 F33 2018 U1 - 301 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - SOCIOLOGY KW - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KW - FAST N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1: Introduction Raquel Sosa Elízaga; Part One: Capitalism and Inequality: Globalized Economies and Fractured Societies; Chapter 2: When Extractive Logics Rule: Proliferating Expulsions Saskia Sassen; Chapter 3: Resilience, Resistance and Rewiring the World Economy: A View from the South Ari Sitas; Chapter 4: Stratification Requiescat in Pace: Paradigm Shift: From 'Stratification' and Mobility to Inequality Göran Therborn; Part Two: Economic, Territorial and Social Dimensions of Inequality; Chapter 5: Globalization, Uneven Economic Development, Inequality and Poverty: The Interactive Effects Between Position in the Modern World System and Domestic Stratification Systems Harold Kerbo; Chapter 6: Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World Habibul Haque Khondker; Chapter 7: Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress Carlos Walter Porto-Goncalves; Chapter 8: Climate Change and Vulnerable Urban Groups: Comparative Analysis of Taipei and Kaohsiung Keng-Ming Hsu & Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao; Chapter 9: The Coming of the New Class Society: Gender Matters Chizuko Ueno; Chapter 10: Duel of the Dualisms: Production and Reproduction Reconfiguring Susan A. McDaniel; Chapter 11: The Historic Environment in Opposition to Social Inequalities Hiroyuki Torigoe; Chapter 12: The Capability Approach, Social Development and Human Rights Jean-Michel Bonvin; Chapter 13: Two Dissident Ways of Reading on Inequality Ana Esther Ceceña; Chapter 14: Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study Sarah El Jamal & Sari Hanafi; Part Three: Reforms, Resistance and Alternatives: New Ways Towards Social Justice; Chapter 15: The Limits of Reform in Liberal Democracies Walden Bello; Chapter 16: Tensions Between Development, Public Policies to Confront Poverty/Inequality and the Defense of Pluriculturality in South America Edgardo Lander; Chapter 17: Inequitable Access to Citizenship in Democratic States: An Exploration of the Limits of Gendered Social Policies for the Attainment of Gender Inequality Grace Khunou; Chapter 18: Collective Right to Life and New Social Justice: the Case of the Bolivian Indigenous Movement Paulo Henrique Martins; Chapter 19: Demanding Justice: Popular Protests in China Chih-Jou Jay Chen; Chapter 20: Thomas Piketty and the Marikana Massacre Peter Alexander; Chapter 21: From Tekel to Gezi Resistance in Turkey: Possibilities for a Combined Rights Movement Aylin Topal; Chapter 22: Socio-ecological Inequality and the Democratization Process José Esteban Castro N2 - 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).-- ER -