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What in the World? : Understanding Global Social Change /
Moving beyond the limits of parochialism, this book develops a truly global perspective on social change. It brings together renowned scholars from across disciplines and provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for u...
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Bristol :
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2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Series -- What in the World: Understanding Global Social Change -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: World Society and Its Histories -- The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change -- The global from different disciplinary points of view -- Distortions: modernity, coloniality, Eurocentrism, postcoloniality (and the 'Eurocentrisms' of world society) -- Reflective devices: periodization, epochs and orders -- Problematizing social change in a global perspective | |
| 505 | 0 | |a A laboratory of thinking about global change: the individual chapters -- Conclusion: follow-up questions for future research -- Postscript -- Notes -- 2 Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society -- Introduction -- A reading of global history -- A reading of world society theory -- Large-scale 'epochal' change -- The 'long nineteenth century' -- 'Big' events and 'turning points' -- Beyond arbitrariness: differentiation as heuristic, evolution as theory? -- Conclusion: evolving together -- Notes | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 3 Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing -- Introduction -- Periodization in global history: challenges and shortcomings -- Postcolonial criticism of epoch concepts -- Why periodization is vulnerable -- and unavoidable -- Historicist concepts: Ranke and Droysen -- Comparisons as the basis of periodization -- Comparisons, 'narrative objectives' and periodization in global history -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Communication, Differentiation and the Evolution of World Society -- From universal to instantaneous communication | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Media of communication, universalism and differentiation -- From adaptation to fusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- Field theory and the global political field -- Global political transformations, 1800s-1960s -- Imperial expansion and war: struggles for succession -- Decolonization and struggles of subversion -- Field theory in comparison -- Notes -- 6 Organization(s) of the World -- Introduction -- Organization and world in the foundation of international organizations -- Organization and organizations | |
| 505 | 0 | |a World and state -- Types of organizing the world -- International law -- International conferences -- International organizations -- World state/statehood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society -- Introduction -- Entering the field -- Humanitarian interventions as laboratories of world society -- Humanitarian interventions in world politics -- Researching interventions as laboratories of world society -- Women in Afghanistan as a global cause -- Afghans striving for women's rights and empowerment | |
| 520 | |a Moving beyond the limits of parochialism, this book develops a truly global perspective on social change. It brings together renowned scholars from across disciplines and provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Werron, Tobias, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Albert, Mathias, |e editor. | |
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