The future of world society.

Sonst. Personen	Herkenrath, Mark (Hrsg.); König, Claudia (Hrsg.); Scholtz, Hanno (Hrsg.); Volken, Thomas (Hrsg.)
Titel	The future of world society. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Zukunft der Weltgesellschaft.
Quelle	Zürich: Intelligent Book Production (2005), IV, 389 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	3-908730-84-8
Schlagwörter	Geschichte (Histor); Gerechtigkeit; Ungleichheit; Einkommensunterschied; Hegemonie; Soziale Bewegung; Weltgesellschaft; Zivilgesellschaft; Globalisierung; Multinationales Unternehmen; Arbeitsmarkt; Nichtstaatliche Organisation; Japan
Abstract	"The world has always changed, it is currently changing, and most likely will always do so. But where will the journey go to? Talk of accelerated social change and the idea of change being the only constant go hand in hand with the ongoing discourse on 'globalization'. Much of the mainstream literature on 'globalization', confined with economic issues, pictures this process as an unprecedented phenomenon, and linearly projects its effects into the Future. In contrast, the authors of The Future of World Society encourage a fresh, historically informed, and multidisciplinary look at the world and explore its possible futures. The common analytical anchoring point is world-System theory, which for over 30 years has conceptualized social realties as the historical outcome of interwoven processes of economic, political, and cultural development." (author's abstract). Contents: Mark Herkenrath, Claudia König, Hanno Scholtz, Thomas Volken: The future of world society: an introduction (1-12); Christopher Chase-Dunn: Social evolution and the future of world society (13-37); George Modelski: Long-term trends in world politics(39-52); Joachim Karl Rennstich: The future of hegemony and global system leadership (53-79); Jeffrey Kentor: Transnational corporate power. Expansion, spatial distribution, and concentration, 1962-1998 (81-102); Michael Nollert: Transnational corporate networks. Theoretical perspectives, empirical evidente and prospects (103-128); Alberto Martinelli: From world system to world society? (129-149); Georg Kohler: Globalization and the Relation Between Inequality and Justice (151-159); Neera Chandhoke: How global is global civil society? (161-181); Dieter Rucht: Transnational social movements in the era of globalization (183-197); Gordon Laxer: US empire and popular sovereignty (199-229); John Boli: Trends in world culture (231-251); Arthur S. Alderson, Jason Beckfield, Francois Nielsen: Income inequality trends in core societies (253-271); Harold R. Kerbo: Inequality and divergence in the modern world system. Historical Forces and the Reduction of Global Inequalities in East and Southeast Asia (273-308); Georg P. Mueller: The institutional clocks of the welfare state. Interference and Synchronization (309-332); Walter Müller: Education and labour markets. Commonality or divergence? (333-356); Yasusada Yawata: Coping with modernization dynamics. Japanese experiences and Max Weber (357-375); Christian Suter: Research on world society and the Zurich school (377-384).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2010/1