Globalization and inequalities complexities and contested modernities

How does globalization change social inequality? In this groundbreaking book,Sylvia Walby examines the many changing forms of social inequality and their intersectionalities. She builds a new framework using complexity theory to analyze the intersections of different forms of social divisions at both country and global levels. Walby shows how the contest between different modernities and conceptions of progress shape the present and future. The book reconceptualizes the nature of economy, polity, civil society and violence in the development of modernities, and in the various framings of progress. It places globalization and inequalities at the centre of a new theoretical understanding of modernity and progress. The book demonstrates the power of these theoretical reformulations for empirical study drawing on comparative information from globaldatasets and in depth analysis of the US and EU, including the UK, Ireland and Sweden. Walby analyses the contestation between different forms of modernitythat are shaping global futures. She examines the regulation and deregulationof employment and welfare; domestic and public gender regimes; secular and religious polities; path dependent trajectories and global political waves; and global inequalities and human rights.

• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8518-6
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés