In this sequel to 'Making Globalization', Robert Holton offers a thorough investigation of global network links across time and space. Exploring leading theory and new evidence on the subject, the book also offers advice on global network research. This is essential reading for all students of globalization and contemporary social change.
In this sequel to 'Making Globalization', Robert Holton offers a thorough investigation of global network links across time and space. Exploring leadi...
Economy and Society is a major landmark in the recent emergence of economic sociology. Robert J. Holton provides a major new synthesis of social scientific thinking on the inter-relationship between economy and society arguing for the importance of politics and culture to the functioning of the economy and drawing on the strengths but avoiding the weaknesses of economic liberalism and political economy.
Economy and Society is a major landmark in the recent emergence of economic sociology. Robert J. Holton provides a major new synthesis of soc...
Economy and Society is a major landmark in the recent emergence of economic sociology. Robert J. Holton provides a major new synthesis of social scientific thinking on the inter-relationship between economy and society arguing for the importance of politics and culture to the functioning of the economy and drawing on the strengths but avoiding the weaknesses of economic liberalism and political economy.
Economy and Society is a major landmark in the recent emergence of economic sociology. Robert J. Holton provides a major new synthesis of soc...
Does globalization mean the end of the nation state? Or are nation states able to respond to processes of global change? This impressively comprehensive book examines the connections and conflicts that exist between global and national processes, institutions and cultures. Debating and explaining controversial and contested understandings of globalization, the second edition has new content on: * Hot and timely topics, from human rights and migration to new technologies and environmental sustainability * Connections between globalization and global events, including the rise of China, the...
Does globalization mean the end of the nation state? Or are nation states able to respond to processes of global change? This impressively comprehensi...
'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time - issues of sickness and health, power and inequality, the nature of capitalism and its possible alternatives. They develop a mature and original perspective on Parsons as the only classical theorist who avoided crippling nostalgia. Holton and Turner not only talk about Parsonian sociology in a profound and insightful way, they do it, and do it well. As sociology moves away from the rigid dichotomies of earlier debate, this book will help...
'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time - ...
A broad, multi-disciplinary and up-to-date analysis of the current state of global inequality that draws on major theories and contemporary evidence in order to explain the need for concern about global inequality, to consider the historical trends and causes of global inequality and to question the efficacy of social policy.
A broad, multi-disciplinary and up-to-date analysis of the current state of global inequality that draws on major theories and contemporary evidenc...