"This integrated, analytic text presents a comprehensive analysis transformation and development of the political economy in the Middle East over the past several decades. In this updated third edition of A Political Economy of the Middle East, the book retains its focus on the …
A collection of essays by Robert Dingwall on professions, especially law and medicine. This book introduces the essays with a foreword from the author, who places the work in context and offers some thoughts about how the work might be used by scholars in developing the field.
"In this book, Mathias Albert develops an ambitious theoretical framework that describes world politics as a specific social system set within the wider political system of world society. Albert's analysis of the historical evolution and contemporary form of world politics takes…
As a category of historical analysis, class is dead-or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to "Class Matters" contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true…
The old saying does often seem to hold true: the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, creating a widening gap between those who have more and those who have less. The sociologist Robert K. Merton called this phenomenon the Matthew effect, named after a passage in the Book …
An introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late-20th century, Niklas Luhmann. The book injects concepts derived from Luhmann's influential systems theory into debates about modernity and postmodernity, constructivist and …
Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Oc…
"You will never think about free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. This book should transform public discourse in America."--Robert Kuttner, author of "Everything for Sale". America is in serious economic trouble, but don't expect our leaders to do anyth…
"A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and social actors in the Midd…
by Winker, Gabriele, Degele, Nina
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Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between "midnight's children," who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism, and "…
Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between "midnight's children," who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism, and "…
