100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World

100 Ways of Seeing an Unequal World
Author: Bob Sutcliffe
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781856498142

This innovative book builds on the fact that there is now a large body of statistical information about today's highly unequal world. Bob Sutcliffe looks at current affairs, development, and international relations. For anyone wanting to understand the contemporary world, this book probes complex economic issues using innovative diagrams and charts.

Global Inequality

Global Inequality
Author: David Held
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2007-01-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745638864

What is global inequality? How can it be measured? What are the major trends? Addressing these questions, this book examines the major issues that need to be confronted in conceptualising, measuring and analysing patterns of global inequality. It explores the implications of these patterns for politics and public policy.

Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions

Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions
Author: Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780742535305

This book addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and asks questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both ecological theology and deglobalization theory. The book looks at issues of globalization, interfaith ecological theology, ecofeminism, and deglobalization movements comparatively across different world religions and across geographical regions. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Flat World, Big Gaps

Flat World, Big Gaps
Author: United Nations
Publisher: Zed Books
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781842778340

This publication sets out an empirical analysis of the impact of economic liberalisation and globalisation on inequality, poverty and development, including recent trends in economic growth, income distribution and global inequalities, and the comparative experiences of countries that have pursued different economic policies.

Fighting poverty, inequality and injustice

Fighting poverty, inequality and injustice
Author: Walker, Alan
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447315030

This important book makes a vital academic and political statement in the cause of social justice. It begins with an appreciation of the seminal contributions of Peter Townsend (1928-2009), and applies them to contemporary policy debates. It brings together many of the leading contributors to current debates in this field and provides a compelling manifesto for change for students and researchers in the social sciences, policy makers and practitioners, and everybody with an interest in creating a more equal and socially just society.

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture

Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture
Author: Dale Southerton
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 1665
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0872896013

The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture is the first reference work to outline the parameters of consumer culture and provide a critical, scholarly resource on consumption and consumerism.

Globalization or Empire?

Globalization or Empire?
Author: Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135934797

In this smart and concise examination of the trends driving contemporary globalization, Jan Nederveen Pieterse argues that the United States' pursuit of global primacy is based upon a complex melding of neoliberal economics and hegemonic politics. Do alternate capitalisms offer viable alternatives to the American way? Globalization or Empire? looks at globalization with acuity and thoughtfulness and uncovers its underlying dramas.

Christianity and Social Systems

Christianity and Social Systems
Author: Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0742546438

From the earliest interactions of Christians with the Roman Empire to today's debates about the separation of church and state, the Christian churches have been in complex relationships with various economic and political systems for centuries. Renowned theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether analyzes the ways Christian churches historically interacted with powerful systems such as patriarchy, racism, slavery, and environmentalism, while looking critically at how the church shapes these systems today. This book is neither an attack on the relationship between Christianity and these systems nor an apology but rather a nuanced examination of the interactions between them. By understanding how these interactions have shaped history, we can more fully understand how to make ethical decisions about the role of Christianity in some of today's most pressing social issues. Book jacket.

Discourse on Applied Sociology: Practising perspective

Discourse on Applied Sociology: Practising perspective
Author: Samir Dasgupta
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1843312751

Clinical sociology, career coaching and somatic learning / Kathryn Goldman Schuyler -- Applied social survey methodology: telephone surveys and the importance of introduction / Robyn Driskell -- When a stranger calls: the impact of caller ID on telephone surveys / Kathy Krey and Jodien Matos -- Globalization, growth and poverty reduction: myths and realities / Ray Kiely -- Applied version of rural poverty: a case study / Samir Dasgupta and Kaushik Chattopadhyay -- Social justice vs 'financial apartheid': microcredit and banking with the poor without collateral / Muhammad Yunus -- Global technology and local reality among child street labourers in Guatemala City / Thomas A. Offit -- Social politics and policy in an era of globalization: critical reflections / Nicola Yeates -- Theoretical claims and ethnic identity formation: interpretations from a Slovenian--American community / Elaine F. Hocever and Ernest M. De Zolt -- Gender and immigrant religious practices: an applied sociology perspective / Sarah Stohlman -- Applied sociology and demography / Vijayan K. Pillai and Rashmi Gupta.