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Global Inequality
Rethinking Sociology in the 21st Century
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 329
The book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between globalisation and transnationalisation and the development of social inequality. It addresses this challenge in the current transition to a multi-centred world. The contributions by international experts from different continents and different disciplines bring together current research on global inequality and social classes, covering a wide variety of thematic and spatial foci. This also includes a comparison of analyses of inequality in a global context. By bringing together analyses of inequalities in income, wealth, education, political influence, labor conditions, and socio-ecological inequalities, among others, the volume provides deeper insights into the ways in which global social inequalities are changing yet being reproduced in many ways in the 21st century. It calls for a discussion on the global dimensions of unequal power relations.
Christopher Wimmer, Dr., Humboldt Universität (HU) zu Berlin, is a sociologist and author. From 2023-2024, he worked as a research assistant at HU Berlin. He has published several monographs and articles on social inequality, poverty research and marginalized groups, including "Exclusions and Marginalisation" (in: Global Handbook of Inequality, Springer, 2024) and Die Marginalisierten. (Ãber-)Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit (Beltz, 2024).
Tobias Rieder, M.A., Berlin, is a sociologist with a focus on social inequality, classes, and milieus. Upon graduating from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in Social Sciences, he worked as a Personal Advisor to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin from 2016 to 2023.
Tobias Rieder, M.A., Berlin, is a sociologist with a focus on social inequality, classes, and milieus. Upon graduating from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in Social Sciences, he worked as a Personal Advisor to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin from 2016 to 2023.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: Introduction
âChristopher Wimmer and Tobias Rieder
Part 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations
2 Shifting Borders: Inequality Between and Within States in the Longue Durée
âAndrea Komlosy
3 The Global Perspective on Income Inequality
âArthur Zito Guerriero and Jakob Kapeller
4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and Quijano
âAlejandro Bialakowsky, Mariano SasÃn, Tomás Nougués, FermÃn Ãlvarez Ruiz, Elisa Ichaso and AgustÃn Bertelli
5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and Bourdieu
âJan Weckwerth
6 The âMiddle Classesâ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science Discourses
âBahareh Gondani, Matthias Riedmann and Adrian Scholz Alvarado
Part 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege
7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and Germany
âChristopher Wimmer and Jessé Souza
8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical Reflections
âGiorgos Bithymitris
9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific Basin
âAndrés Bateman
10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across Time
âMagdalena Fellner
11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business Elite
âFabrÃcio Maciel
Part 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market
12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International Production
âKarin Fischer and Christian Reiner
13 The Need-Based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century Capitalism
âJakob Graf
14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism?
âJohanna Sittel
15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes Across Countries
âFrancisco Javier Ardila Suarez
Part 4 Social Class and Political Struggle
16 Social Class and the Far-Right
âFabio Braun Carrasco
17 Social Class and Socio-Political Camps in Europe
âTobias Rieder and Christian Schneickert
18 Weâre Not All In This Together â Weâre Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological Inequalities
âHans Rackwitz
19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets Globalization
âGilberto Antonelli
20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
âRonald W. Cox and Joshua Gold
Notes on Contributors
1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: Introduction
âChristopher Wimmer and Tobias Rieder
Part 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations
2 Shifting Borders: Inequality Between and Within States in the Longue Durée
âAndrea Komlosy
3 The Global Perspective on Income Inequality
âArthur Zito Guerriero and Jakob Kapeller
4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and Quijano
âAlejandro Bialakowsky, Mariano SasÃn, Tomás Nougués, FermÃn Ãlvarez Ruiz, Elisa Ichaso and AgustÃn Bertelli
5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and Bourdieu
âJan Weckwerth
6 The âMiddle Classesâ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science Discourses
âBahareh Gondani, Matthias Riedmann and Adrian Scholz Alvarado
Part 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege
7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and Germany
âChristopher Wimmer and Jessé Souza
8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical Reflections
âGiorgos Bithymitris
9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific Basin
âAndrés Bateman
10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across Time
âMagdalena Fellner
11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business Elite
âFabrÃcio Maciel
Part 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market
12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International Production
âKarin Fischer and Christian Reiner
13 The Need-Based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century Capitalism
âJakob Graf
14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism?
âJohanna Sittel
15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes Across Countries
âFrancisco Javier Ardila Suarez
Part 4 Social Class and Political Struggle
16 Social Class and the Far-Right
âFabio Braun Carrasco
17 Social Class and Socio-Political Camps in Europe
âTobias Rieder and Christian Schneickert
18 Weâre Not All In This Together â Weâre Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological Inequalities
âHans Rackwitz
19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets Globalization
âGilberto Antonelli
20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
âRonald W. Cox and Joshua Gold
The book is aimed at those interested and working in the social sciences (including in particular progressively orientated young researchers, whose unease in view of the deficits of previous research, which neglects the societies of the Global South, should be addressed), as well as a broader audience interested in questions of social inequality and global justice. This provides impetus for the work of progressive actors, in particular for intensified international cooperation between emancipatory movements, academia, trade unions and political parties.