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Analysing social change has too often been characterized by
parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European
experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores
insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond
these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The
book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity
as the product of global developments and brings together renowned
scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the
search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range
of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and
substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding
change on a global scale.
Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to
understand and conceptualize "the global," yet few of them have
systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships.
Prominent exponents of the global approach - such as world systems
analysis - instead have focused on particular domains such as
politics or the economy. Under the label of "world society,"
however, some authors have suggested alternatives to the
predominant equivocation of society and the nation-state. The
contributions to this volume share that objective and take their
point of departure from the two most ambitious projects of a theory
of world society: world polity research and systems theory, mapping
out the common ground and assessing their potential to inform
empirical analyses of globalization.
Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to
understand and conceptualize the global, yet few of them have
systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships.
Prominent exponents of the global approach - such as world systems
analysis - instead have focused on particular domains such as
politics or the economy. Under the label of world society, however,
some authors have suggested alternatives to the predominant
equivocation of society and the nation-state. The contributions to
this volume share that objective and take their point of departure
from the two most ambitious projects of a theory of world society:
world polity research and systems theory, mapping out the common
ground shared by world polity research and systems theory and
assessing their potential to inform empirical analyses of
globalization.
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Worlds of Rankings (Hardcover)
Leopold Ringel, Wendy Espeland, Michael Sauder, Tobias Werron
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R2,861
Discovery Miles 28 610
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This volume contains an Open Access chapter. We have witnessed an
avalanche of quantitative public measures over the past decades.
Research in the social sciences has shown that rankings in
particular are now a driving force of social change - both, desired
and undesired - in many areas of modern life. This volume explores
the distinct allure of rankings in diverse empirical settings such
as healthcare, the IT sector, the arts, professional sports,
anti-slavery advocacy, the pharma industry, and educational
governance. Drawing from a rich variety of social theories and
methodologies, the contributions to this volume advance our
understanding of the production, institutionalization, and effects
of rankings significantly, sparking new debates and suggesting
promising pathways forward.
Analysing social change has too often been characterized by
parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European
experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores
insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond
these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The
book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity
as the product of global developments and brings together renowned
scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the
search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range
of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and
substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding
change on a global scale.
Der Band versammelt Beitrage zu einem Thema, das in der
Globalisierungsforschung in den letzten Jahren zunehmendes
Interesse gefunden hat, zu dem aber noch Publikationen fehlen, die
die theoretisch-vergleichende Auseinandersetzung mit dem Gegenstand
vorantreiben. Hier anzuknupfen bietet sich insbesondere fur ein
weltgesellschaftstheoretisches Forschungsinteresse an, dem an der
Verbindung empirischer Globalisierungsforschung mit theoretischem
Anspruch gelegen ist.
Rankings sind in der modernen Gesellschaft allgegenwartig:
Athleten, Hotels, Nationalstaaten, Unternehmen, Universitaten,
Kunsttreibende und viele andere sehen sich Leistungsvergleichen in
der Form von regelmassig veroeffentlichen Ranglisten ausgesetzt.
Die Beitrage des Sammelbandes nahern sich dem Phanomen aus einer
genuin soziologischen Perspektive und untersuchen u.a. die
Produktion, Verwendungsweisen, Institutionalisierung und Effekte
von Rankings in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Feldern.
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