Social Problems : Globalization in the 21st Century

by Peterson, R. Dean; Wunder, Delores F.; Mueller, Harlan L.

ISBN13:
9780131468955
ISBN10:
0131468952
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1999-01-01
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

This volume integrates traditional sociological concepts and insights with an ecological awareness and applies it to the globalization process. It takes a dynamic view of globalization as an evolutionary process with a potential for unprecedented transformation of social structure and consciousness.

The Sociological Perspective, Global Problems, and Globalization

(30)

PART ONE NEGOTIATING THE NEW GLOBAL CULTURE

(108)

Human Rights: Negotiating the New Civil Order

(36)

Religion: Negotiating the Cosmological Order

(36)

Technology and Society: Negotiating the Natural Order

108

(32)

PART TWO GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGING INSTITUTIONS

140

(136)

Population and Urbanization: Too Many People, Too Few Resources

144

(33)

Environmental Destruction: Depleting the Global Commons

177

(31)

Global Political Systems: Power Shifts and a New World Order?

208

(30)

Global Economic Systems: From Exploitation to Interdependency?

238

(38)

PART THREE GLOBALIZATION, VICTIMIZATION, AND EMPOWERMENT

276

(134)

Women, Children, Families: Empowering the Building Blocks of Society

282

(31)

Medicine and Education in a Global Society: Key Institutions for Empowerment

313

(37)

Minority Group Tensions: Issues of Race and Ethnicity

350

(30)

Terrorism, Crime, Repression, and Warfare: Violence in Global Society

380

(30)

Epilogue: Reimaging the Future

410

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