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Global Inequality

Rethinking Sociology in the 21st Century

Series:  Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 329
Cover Global Inequality
E-Book ISBN:
9789004733626
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
26 Jun 2025
  • Subjects
    • Social Sciences
      • Comparative Social Sciences
      • Critical Social Sciences
      • Sociology & Anthropology
      • Economics & Political Science
      • Global Studies
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: Introduction
Part 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations
Chapter 2 Shifting Borders: Inequality between and Within States in the Longue Durée
Chapter 3 The Global Perspective on Income Inequality
Chapter 4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and Quijano
Chapter 5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and Bourdieu
Chapter 6 The ‘Middle Classes’ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science Discourses
Part 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege
Chapter 7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and Germany
Chapter 8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical Reflections
Chapter 9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific Basin
Chapter 10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across Time
Chapter 11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business Elite
Part 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market
Chapter 12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International Production
Chapter 13 The Need-based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century Capitalism
Chapter 14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism?
Chapter 15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes across Countries
Part 4 Social Class and Political Struggle
Chapter 16 Social Class and the Far-right
Chapter 17 Social Class and Socio-political Camps in Europe
Chapter 18 We’re Not All in This Together – We’re Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological Inequalities
Chapter 19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets Globalization
Chapter 20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism
Back Matter
Index

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