What in the World?

Understanding Global Social Change
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5292-1331-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albert, Mathias

Werron, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Müller

Technical Internationalism and Global Social Change: A Critical Look at the Historiography of the United Nations ~ Daniel Speich Chassé

Über Autor(innen)

Albert, Mathias
Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University.

Werron, Tobias
Tobias Werron is Professor of Sociological Theory at Bielefeld University.

Mathias Albert is Professor of Political Science at Bielefeld University.

Tobias Werron is Professor of Sociological Theory at Bielefeld University.