{"product_id":"global-social-change-christopher-chase-dunn-9780801884238","title":"Global Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis informative and exciting volume brings together accomplished sociologists and scholars to offer an introduction to ways of studying and understanding global social change.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eGlobal Social Change\u003c\/i\u003e explore globalization from a world-systems perspective, untangling its many contested meanings. This perspective offers insights into globalization's gradual and uneven growth throughout the course of human social evolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this informative and exciting volume, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Salvatore J. Babones bring together accomplished senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer an introduction to ways of studying and understanding global social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn both newly written essays and previously published articles from the \u003ci\u003eJournal of World Systems Research\u003c\/i\u003e, the contributors employ historical and comparative social science to examine the development of institutions of global governance, the rise and fall of hegemonic core states, transnational social movements, and global environmental challenges. They compare post-World War II globalization with the great wave of economic integration that occurred in the late nineteenth century, analyze the rise of the political ideology of the \"globalization project\"--Reaganism-Thatcherism--and discuss issues of gender and global inequalities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Chase-Dunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801884233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801884238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.04w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2007 pg. 147","brand":"Christopher Chase-Dunn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086872162559,"sku":"9780801884238","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df244c96-ad6c-4e65-acf9-675f276bb82e.jpg?v=1769097067","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/global-social-change-christopher-chase-dunn-9780801884238","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}