Full Description
This comprehensive Encyclopedia serves as an authoritative reference on global postwar social theory. It examines how the field has responded to critiques of occidental and colonial bias and provides a state of the art which is both original and global in its approach and coverage.
Compiled by expert authors, the Encyclopedia outlines different regional strands of social theory, demonstrating how they conceptualize the international social order and contribute to understanding globalization processes. It identifies key concepts in contemporary social thought, addressing issues such as methodological nationalism, post-colonialism, globalization and world society. Entries emphasize the vital role of social theory in understanding society and set a new standard for reviewing ideas and concepts in the discipline. This Encyclopedia is breaking new ground and helping to define Global Social Theory in the 21st century.
Students and scholars of sociology and social theory will greatly benefit from this invaluable Encyclopedia. It is also an essential resource for scholars in interdisciplinary global studies and postcolonial studies.
Key Features:
Develops analysis and theorization of the modern social world
Provides 65 entries from leading international scholars
Presents state-of-the-art research overviews of the key topics and debates
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: Global social theory in the twenty-first century 1
Raf Vanderstraeten and Gert Verschraegen
PART I RECONFIGURING SOCIAL THEORY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT
2 America in theory 6
Frank J. Lechner
3 Civilizations and globalizations 11
Johann P. Arnason
4 Colonial modernity 18
Sujata Patel
5 Global modernity 25
Volker Schmidt
6 Modernity in world history 30
Peter Wagner
7 Nation-states and social theory 35
Daniel Chernilo
8 Postcolonial social theory 40
Itamar Y. Shachar
9 Theorizing in a global world 47
Monika Krause
10 Theorizing world society 51
Boris Holzer
PART II GLOBALIZING SOCIAL THEORIES
11 Actor-network theory 60
Casper Bruun Jensen
12 Global sociology ambitions 66
Ivan Kislenko
13 Governmentality and the global 71
Kaat Louckx
14 Institutionalism 75
Anna Kosmützky and Georg Krücken†
15 LGBTQ social theory 80
Momin Rahman
16 Norbert Elias: global processes of civilization and decivilization 86
Robert van Krieken
17 Social network theory 92
Nick Crossley
18 Sociological systems theory and world society 98
Rudolf Stichweh
PART III GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY AND REGIONAL TRADITIONS
19 American sociology 107
Stephen Turner
20 Are the social sciences Europeanizing? 114
Johan Heilbron
21 Chinese society and social theory 119
Hon-Fai Chen
22 French social theory 125
Frédéric Vandenberghe
23 Global social problems and public sociology 130
Jerry A. Jacobs and Elinore Avni
24 Indian sociology and social theory 136
Kanhaya L. Sharma
25 Latin America and social theory 140
Aldo Mascareño
26 Multiple modernities 146
Chih-Chieh Tang and Feng-Tsan Lin
27 Post-Soviet societies and social theory 151
Svetlana Bankovskaya and Alexander F. Filippov
PART IV KEY TOPICS OF GLOBAL SOCIAL THEORY
28 Anthropocene 158
Leslie Sklair
29 Borders 164
Yasmeen Abu-Laban and sasha skaidra
30 Citizenship 170
Christian Joppke
31 Competition 176
Tobias Werron
32 Cosmopolitanism and global events 181
Daniel Chernilo
33 Crisis 185
Aldo Mascareño and Nicole Gardella
34 Empire and nation-state 190
Karen Barkey and Cecilia Giancola
35 Global culture 196
David Inglis
36 Global ecology and sustainability 202
Luigi Pellizzoni
37 Global epidemics 208
Frédéric Keck
38 Global humanitarianism 214
Robin Vandevoordt
39 Global ideologies 220
Amentahru Wahlrab
40 Global imaginary 226
Isaac Kamola
41 Global law 230
Chris Thornhill
42 Global protest 237
Mohammed Bamyeh
43 Glocalization 241
Victor N. Roudometof
44 Glocal social movements 245
Mojtaba Mahdavi
45 Human capital theory and the global education revolution 252
David P. Baker
46 Inequality in world society 256
Anja Weiß
47 International society 261
Jorg Kustermans
48 Language 265
Mitsuhiro Tada
49 Markets 272
Patrik Aspers
50 Migration 276
Laura Cleton
51 Mobilities 283
Noel B. Salazar
52 Organisations in world society 289
Stefan Kühl
53 Populism and social theory 294
Paul Blokker
54 Poverty and exclusion 300
Jeremy Seekings
55 Quantification in global society 306
Martin Petzke
56 Race and ethnicity 313
Tania Das Gupta
57 Religion and globalization 318
Peter Beyer
58 Science 323
59 Slavery and strong asymmetrical dependencies 328
Rudolf Stichweh
60 Social resilience 335
Rafael Wittek
61 Sport 342
Hans Erik Næss
62 Tourism 346
Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt and Jonas Larsen
63 Transnationalism and diaspora 351
Milena Belloni
64 World heritage 356
Christoph Brumann
65 World religions 361
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
