What in the World? : Understanding Global Social Change /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Werron, Tobias (Editor ), Albert, Mathias (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social change.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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