Facing an unequal world : challenges for global sociology / edited by Raquel Sosa Elizaga.

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

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).-- Provided by Publisher.