Globalization and inequalities [electronic resource] : complexities and contested modernities / Sylvia Walby

Author: Walby, Sylvia
Published: Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, 2009.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 508 pages)

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Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction : progress and modernities -- 2.Theorizing multiple social systems -- 3.Economies -- 4.Polities -- 5.Violence -- 6.Civil societies -- 7.Regimes of complex inequality -- 8.Varieties of modernity -- 9.Measuring progress -- 10.Comparative paths through modernity : neoliberalism and social democracy -- 11.Contested futures -- 12.Conclusions.

Summary

'Globalization and Inequalities' places globalisation difference and gender at the heart of social theory, and demonstrates the powerful capacity of complexity theory to enable innovative social analysis.

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ISBN

9781446269145 (ebook)

Audience Notes

Specialized.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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