| Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities Contributor(s): Walby, Sylvia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803985177 ISBN-13: 9780803985179 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $202.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 Annotation: This groundbreaking book places globalisation, difference and gender at the heart of social theory, and demonstrates the powerful capacity of complexity theory to enable innovative social analysis. The author challenges social theory to incorporate gender and other forms of difference and inequality, rejecting the practice of treating gender as a separate category of analysis and demonstrates the relevance of gender and difference for central issues in contemporary social theory and analysis. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Globalization |
| Dewey: 303.482 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (2.10 lbs) 520 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How has globalization changed social inequality? In this groundbreaking book, Globalization and Inequalities, Sylvia Walby examines the many changing forms of social inequality and their intersectionalities at both country and global levels. She shows how the contest between different modernities and conceptions of progress shape the present and future. Globalization and Inequalities is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics of sociology, social theory, gender studies and politics and international relations, geography, economics and law. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walby, Sylvia: - Sylvia Walby is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and holds the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research, at Lancaster University. She is a 'public sociologist', engaged in research designed to have impact on the world, concerning gender inequality, violence and the economic crisis. The UNESCO Chair in Gender Research Group, led by Walby, who has held the Chair since 2008, focuses on internationally relevant research on gender relations, and on building global networks for research and policy exchange on gender issues. With colleagues, Walby has since 2008 obtained funding from: UK Economic and Social Research Council, Home Office, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Northern Rock Foundation, Trust for London, NSPCC; European Commission, European Parliament, European Institute for Gender Equality, EU Presidency, European Value Added Unit, the Council of Europe; UN Women, UNESCO; the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development, and the Canadian Ministry of Justice. Walby was a member of the HEFCE REF2014 sub-panel for Sociology, a Director of the UK National Commission for UNESCO (2011-3), President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 02 Economy and Society (2006-10), founding President of the European Sociological Association (1995-7), and Chair of the Women's Studies Network, UK (1989-90). She has been awarded an OBE for services to equal opportunities and diversity (2008), and made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2008) and of the Royal Society of Arts (1996). Teaching is currently focused on 'violence and society' (undergraduate) and 'gender and violence' (MA). |