Outlining the main concerns of Max Weber's sociology with its focus on law, religion, politics and economic life, the authors stress the productive legacy of his thought in current areas of intellectual debate, most notably the crisis of Marxism and the rise of the New Right.

Outlining the main concerns of Max Weber's sociology with its focus on law, religion, politics and economic life, the authors stress the productive legacy of his thought in current areas of intellectual debate, most notably the crisis of Marxism and the rise of the New Right.

Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose and what can be done about it.

Based on theoretical developments in research on world-systems analysis, transnational migration, postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, whilst considering continuities of inequality patterns in the context of colonial and postcolonial realities, Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism proposes an original framework for the study of the long-term reproduction of inequalities under global capitalism. With attention to the critical assessment of both Marxist and Weberian perspectives, this book examines the wider implications of transferring classical approaches to inequality to a...

In contrast to speculative, sweeping literature on globalization Global Exposure in East Asia grounds globalization theories in a detailed empirical analysis, providing a systematic investigation of what until now have been grand narratives of huge global phenomena. This book presents a micro-level explanation of globalization by examining individual global exposure and its influence in the values and perceptions of individuals, contending that individual and personal global experience, or 'microglobalization', is a key variable in understanding how modern mobile persons act and think in ways...