The World-System as Unit of Analysis (eBook, ePUB)

Past Contributions and Future Advances
Redaktion: Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

World-system analyses have recast the study of between- and within-nation country inequality as constituent aspects of a single field of inquiry: the study of inequality and social stratification as processes that always have been global in their very essence. World-system analyses maintain that global social stratification pivots around institutional arrangements that render distributional outcomes as simultaneously "national," "gendered," "racialized," and "global" processes.

This book takes stock of some of the enduring theoretical and empirical contributions of a world-system perspective, and identifies promising directions for future inquiry and discussion. Some chapters reassess the scope and methodologies of world-system analysis around several key problems (e.g., the spatial and temporal boundaries of global commodity chains, the construction and challenge of various dimensions of social inequality, systemic and antisystemic social movements). Others take stock of areas in which world-systems are promoting methodological innovation and/or generating useful global data, and identify questions that demand additional methodological and empirical attention for future research.

In different ways, this book help us to critically reconsider some of the enduring legacies within a world-system perspective (such as Karl Polanyi's concept of the "double movement," or the distinction drawn by Giovanni Arrighi or Immanuel Wallerstein between systemic and antisystemic movements). As argued by many of the authors in this book, a world-historical approach calls for greater sensitivity to the manifold ways in which conceptual boundaries change over time and space. Taking seriously the issue of unit of analysis, this book explores critically productive ways for better understanding global patterns of continuity and change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351589017
• Artikelnr.: 49273178

Autorenporträt

Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park (USA). His book Unveiling Inequality (NY, 2009), co-written with Timothy P. Moran, won the 2010 Best Book Award of the Political Economy of the World-System section of the American Sociological Association. His current research focuses on global patterns of income inequality, social stratification, and mobility.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. By Way of Introduction: Selected Discussions on the Scope and
Empirics of World-System Analysis (Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz).
Chapter 2. The Analytical-Holistic Divide Within World-Systems Analysis
(David Baronov).
Chapter 3. Coercion and Concrete Labor Within Historical Capitalism:
Reexamining Intersectionality Theory (Kelvin Santiago-Valles).
Chapter 4. Modern World-System or Capitalist Civilization? (Ramón
Grosfoguel and Eric Mielants).
Chapter 5. Great Convergence or the Third Great Divergence? Changes in the
Global Distribution of Wealth, 1500-2008 (Sahan Savas Karatasli and Sefika
Kumral).
Chapter 6. Illusion in Crisis? World-Economic and Zonal Volatility,
1975-2013 (Daniel S. Pasciuti and Corey R. Payne).
Chapter 7. The Longue Durée and Raw Materialism of Coal: Against the
So-Called Death of Coal (Paul S. Ciccantell and Paul K. Gellert)
Chapter 8. Contextualizing Global Inequalities: A Sociological Approach
(Anja Weiß).
Chapter 9. (Anti)Systemic Movements: Hegemony, the Passive Revolution, and
(Counter)Revolutions (Brendan McQuade).
Chapter 10. Brokering Markets for Labor and Nature: Social Movements and
the Transition to a Just Economy (Devparna Roy).
Chapter 11. Exit Strategies: Marginalization, Social Movements, and Exit
from the Capitalist World-System (Robert K. Schaeffer).
Bibliography.