Full Description
The 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) was a true milestone in the history of IIS, for it heralded many firsts: the first World Congress to be held on the Asian Continent, the first to be held in China, and the largest attendance by far of any of the organization's World Congresses.
This book is a compendium of 18 papers presented by plenary speakers from 10 different nations. It addresses sweeping issues related to the age of globalization and social change, including cultural diversities, migration and equality, social transformation, and national identity. Notable is an extraordinary diversity of viewpoints, approaches and opinions.
Social Change in the Age of Globalization should be especially useful for those interested in learning more about social change in the context of globalization, especially in nations whose sociological communities are emerging, such as China and many other Asian nations.
Contents
Preface, Masamichi Sasaki
SECTION ONE: SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
On the Historicity of Globalization: Construction and Deconstruction of "Others", T. K. Oommen
The Radical Changes of Chinese: Society and the Stable Progress of Chinese Sociology, Zheng Hangsheng
SECTION TWO:CULTURAL DIVERSITIES IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
Globalization, Cultural Diversity and East Asia: Toward the Possibility of Cultural Co-Operation, Aoki Tamotsu
Globalization from a Sociological Angle, Eliezer Ben-Rafael
On Baseline Equality,Jing Tiankui
Globalization: Towards an East Asian Perspective, Giovanni Arrighi
SECTION THREE MIGRATION: EQUALITY AND GLOBALIZATION
Globalization in the Modern World, Vladimir I. Dobrenkov
Inequalities of the World: Dimensions and Patterns, Göran Therborn
New Trends in the Current Social Stratification Structure Of China,Li Qiang
SECTION FOUR:GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: PART 1
National Community and Globalization in East Asia, Ken'ichi Tominaga,
Social Capital and Social Transformations, Nan Lin
Protecting the Rights of Children in the Age of Globalization, Dean R. Hirsch
Globalization and the "Chinese Experience", Li Peilin
SECTION FIVE:GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: PART 2
Three Prime Movers in the Contested Civil Society: Why and How Social Transformation Occurs in Korea, Han Sang-Jin
Ubiquity of Political Mistrust across Continents, Cultures, Nations and Classes, Mattei Dogan
SECTION SIX:GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
Nation-Building and Ethnicity, Ma Rong
The Forming of the New Human Cooperative Mechanism Under Globalization, You-Mei Li
Globalization and National Identity in Contemporary Society, Masamichi Sasaki
Notes on Contributors
