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Global Inequalities.
This readable, sociologically interpretive book focuses through the lens of stratification and inequality, the authors examine a wide variety of topics - from global economic trends to ethnic conflicts - in four regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. They use academic models and theories t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1996.
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| Colección: | Sociology for a new century.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a This readable, sociologically interpretive book focuses through the lens of stratification and inequality, the authors examine a wide variety of topics - from global economic trends to ethnic conflicts - in four regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. They use academic models and theories to help make sense of current events and help place them in an appropriate context; these are enhanced by the use of lively stories and examples from the press. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; About the Authors; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1 -- The Reality of Inequality : Stories from Around the World; A Global Village?; A Few of the Players; Using Sociology to Study Global Inequalities; Questioning Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Chapter 2 -- An Unequal World; The Death of Children; Other Forms of Inequality; Contemporary Global Trends : A World of Changes and Contradictions; Conclusions; Chapter 3 -- Constructing a Model of Global Inequalities; Two Traditional Explanations for Global Inequality. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Modernization Theory : Blaming the VictimWorld-System Theory : Blaming Outside Actors; Combining External and Internal Explanation of Global Inequality; Application to World Regions; Chapter 4 -- Africa : A Continued Decline?; A Land of Contradictions; Africa' s History : A Brief Look; Contemporary Life in Africa; Strong Societies and Weak States; The Persistence of Grinding Poverty; Battles for the Body; ""Presidents for Life/'Sort Of; Becoming Irrelevant to Others; Reduced to Symbols; Africa in Theoretical Perspective; Chapter 5 -- Asia: An Emerging Giant; Bats, Balls, and Whips. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Magic Dragons?Late Industrialization; Economic Growth and a High Level of Equality? The Japanese Case; Inequality in South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore; China : From Mao Jackets to Calvin Klein Jeans; A Land of Paradox; Moving Beyond the Graveyard of Vietnam; Asia in Theoretical Perspective; Chapter 6 -- Europe : United or Divided?; Crumbling Walls; Why 1989?; The Rhetoric Is Unity ; What Is the Reality?; Welfare States : Benevolent or Burdensome?; The Dark Side of Europe; Lessons Unlearned : The Return of Little Hitlers -- The Roller Coaster of War. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Europe in Theoretical PerspectiveChapter 7 -- The Americas : Reinventing Ourselves; The Road to Rio: Environmental Apocalypse Now?; The Lessons of Rio: Is Sustainable Growth Possible?; A Question of Sovereignty; Economic Consolidation in the Americas; The Americas in Theoretical Perspective; Chapter 8 -- Creating a Better World; Summarizing Trends and Changes; Creating Positive Changes; Forcing Change from the Outside : What Is Justified?; Creating Positive Social Changes : What Individuals Can Do; References; Index. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Economic history |y 1945- | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Regional economic disparities. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Histoire économique |y 1945- | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Disparités économiques régionales. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Economic history |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Regional economic disparities |2 fast | |
| 648 | 7 | |a Since 1945 |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Wallace, Professor Michael. | |
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