Christopher Chase-Dunn is a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside. Salvatore J. Babones is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

A top pick for college-level holdings strong in international social studies... Perfect also for classroom discussion. Midwest Book Review 2007 This collection brings together senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer and introduction for ways of studying and understanding global social change. Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and Environment 2008 The collections of essays... represents the most scholarly contribution to these discussions in that it deliberately sets out to review the history of a debate, drawing widely on the sociological literature in particular. -- Michael Redclift British Journal of Sociology 2008

• Preface1. Introduction2. Conducting Global Social ResearchI. What is Globalization?3. Global Social Change in the Long Run4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization5. Globalization: A World-Systems PerspectiveII. Global Inequality6. Global inequality: An Introduction7. Global Enegery Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term ImplicationsIII. Globalization and the Environment8. Ecosystmes and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process9. Global Social Change, Natural Resrouce Consumption, and Environmental DegradationIV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems TheoryV. Global Social Movements12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil SocietyVI. Democrazy and Democratization15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy16. Globalization and the Future of DemocrazyList of ContributorsIndex

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside. Salvatore J. Babones is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

A top pick for college-level holdings strong in international social studies... Perfect also for classroom discussion. Midwest Book Review 2007 This collection brings together senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer and introduction for ways of studying and understanding global social change. Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and Environment 2008 The collections of essays... represents the most scholarly contribution to these discussions in that it deliberately sets out to review the history of a debate, drawing widely on the sociological literature in particular. -- Michael Redclift British Journal of Sociology 2008

• Preface1. Introduction2. Conducting Global Social ResearchI. What is Globalization?3. Global Social Change in the Long Run4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization5. Globalization: A World-Systems PerspectiveII. Global Inequality6. Global inequality: An Introduction7. Global Enegery Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term ImplicationsIII. Globalization and the Environment8. Ecosystmes and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process9. Global Social Change, Natural Resrouce Consumption, and Environmental DegradationIV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems TheoryV. Global Social Movements12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil SocietyVI. Democrazy and Democratization15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy16. Globalization and the Future of DemocrazyList of ContributorsIndex

Christopher Chase-Dunn is a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California-Riverside. Salvatore J. Babones is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh.

A top pick for college-level holdings strong in international social studies... Perfect also for classroom discussion. Midwest Book Review 2007 This collection brings together senior sociologists and outstanding younger scholars with a mix of interests, expertise, and methodologies to offer and introduction for ways of studying and understanding global social change. Abstracts of Public Administration, Development and Environment 2008 The collections of essays... represents the most scholarly contribution to these discussions in that it deliberately sets out to review the history of a debate, drawing widely on the sociological literature in particular. -- Michael Redclift British Journal of Sociology 2008

• Preface1. Introduction2. Conducting Global Social ResearchI. What is Globalization?3. Global Social Change in the Long Run4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization5. Globalization: A World-Systems PerspectiveII. Global Inequality6. Global inequality: An Introduction7. Global Enegery Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term ImplicationsIII. Globalization and the Environment8. Ecosystmes and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process9. Global Social Change, Natural Resrouce Consumption, and Environmental DegradationIV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems TheoryV. Global Social Movements12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil SocietyVI. Democrazy and Democratization15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy16. Globalization and the Future of DemocrazyList of ContributorsIndex