What in the World?
Understanding Global Social Change
1st Edition
Published on 16. December 2020
Book
Hardback
316 pages
978-1-5292-1331-7 (ISBN)
Description
Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change.
The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.
The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Tabellen
2 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
640 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5292-1331-7 (9781529213317)
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Persons
Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University.
Tobias Werron is Professor of Sociological Theory at Bielefeld University.
Tobias Werron is Professor of Sociological Theory at Bielefeld University.
Content
Introduction: World Society and Its Histories: The Sociology and Global History of Global Social Change ~ Mathias Albert and Tobias Werron
Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society ~ Mathias Albert
Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing ~ Angelika Epple
Communication, Diff erentiation and the Evolution of World Society ~ Boris Holzer
Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century ~ Julian Go
Organization(s) of the World ~ Martin Koch
Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society ~ Teresa Koloma Beck
From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an
Evolution Theory Perspective ~ Stephan Stetter
Nationalism as a Global Institution. A Historical-Sociological View ~ Tobias Werron
States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance ~ George Lawson
The Impact of Communications in Global History ~ Heidi Tworek
The 'Long Twentieth Century' and the Making of World Trade Law ~ James Stafford
Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs ~ Thomas Mueller
Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations ~ Daniel Speich Chasse
Every Epoch, Time Frame or Date that Is Solid Melts into Air. Does It? The Entanglements of Global History and World Society ~ Mathias Albert
Periodization in Global History: The Productive Power of Comparing ~ Angelika Epple
Communication, Diff erentiation and the Evolution of World Society ~ Boris Holzer
Field Theory and Global Transformations in the Long Twentieth Century ~ Julian Go
Organization(s) of the World ~ Martin Koch
Particularly Universal Encounters: Ethnographic Explorations into a Laboratory of World Society ~ Teresa Koloma Beck
From the First Sino-Roman War (That Never Happened) to Modern International-cum-Imperial Relations: Observing International Politics from an
Evolution Theory Perspective ~ Stephan Stetter
Nationalism as a Global Institution. A Historical-Sociological View ~ Tobias Werron
States and Markets: A Global Historical Sociology of Capitalist Governance ~ George Lawson
The Impact of Communications in Global History ~ Heidi Tworek
The 'Long Twentieth Century' and the Making of World Trade Law ~ James Stafford
Third-Party Actors, Transparency and Global Military Affairs ~ Thomas Mueller
Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations ~ Daniel Speich Chasse