Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality

Herausgeber: Schuerkens, Ulrike

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten countries within all the major regions of the world. Contributors provide an assessment of the overall social globalization phenomenon in the global world as well as an outlook of transformations of global social inequality in the future. This book will be a timely addition for students and scholars of globalization studies, social inequality, sociology, and cultural and social anthropology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780415810647
• ISBN-10: 0415810647
• Artikelnr.: 36815219

Autorenporträt

Ulrike Schuerkens is Senior Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables. List of Figures. Preface Ulrike Schuerkens. Theoretical and
Empirical Introduction: Globalization and Transformations of Social
Inequality Ulrike Schuerkens 1. Mobilities as Dimensions of Social
Inequality Katharina Manderscheid 2. Impact of Remittances on Income
Inequalities in Romania Ana Maria Zamfir, Cristina Mocanu, Eva Militaru,
and Speranta Pirciog 3. Creating Best Performing Nations in Education: The
Case of the European Union's Use of Benchmarking Susana Melo 4. Gender,
Inequality, and Globalization Ilse Lenz 5. Nicaragua: Constructing the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) Thomas Muhr 6.
The Transformation of the Social Issue: Poverty, Society, and the State
Anete Brito Leal Ivo and Ruthy Nadia Laniado 7. Limits to the
Revitalization of Labor: Social Movement Unionism in Argentina Ayse Serdar
8. Communities: A Lever for Mitigating Social Tensions in Urban China
Amandine Monteil 9. Rising Income Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe:
The Influence of Economic Globalization and Other Social Forces Nina
Bandelj and Matthew Mahutga 10. Indian Society and Globalization:
Inequality and Change Gérard Djallal Heuzé 11. Economic Globalization and
the Empowerment of Local Entrepreneurs in Nigeria Adeyinka Oladayo Bankole
12. Poverty in Senegal: Theoretical Approaches and the Manifestation of
Poverty in People's Living Conditions François-Xavier de Perthuis de
Laillevault and Ulrike Schuerkens. Contributors. Index.