Social Change and the Global Environment Lynn Shields & Leslie Armstrong
- ISBN: 9781788823982
- Edition: 1st
- ©Year: 2020
- List Price : 155
About the Book
Over the last two decades radical transformations have been taking place in the social and economic systems. Through the process of globalization increased opportunities exist for some but disenfranchisement and social dislocations for the great majority are also increasing. Globalization has produced tension between traditional bases of livelihood and emerging export-oriented commercial production of non-traditional items. And finally, globalization has contributed a great deal in deepening the distinction between 'work' and 'leisure', and defining the contours of leisure's activities. Providing a number of empirical and historical studies of leisure from different cultures, this will be of immense book to the students of social sciences and humanities. It is useful for all those students, social scientists and policy-makers who are interested in analyzing social change in the light of this unstoppable process of globalization.
Contents: 1. Globalization: Global Social Change and Research, 2. Global Economic Inequality, 3. Social Inequality and Social Stratification, 4. Social Movement, 5. Democracyand Democratization.
Lynn Shields is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy. He is also Chair of Health and Social Care and a co-director of the Economic and Social Research Council's Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion. He is author and editor of numerous books, including Social Theory and the Global Environment, The Ethics of the Global Environment, Sociology of Global Development, Applying Social Statistic, and Applied Sociology Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty- First Century, etc. He is also past president of the Pacific Sociological Association. His work has focused on Social Work, globalization, labor markets and structural adjustment policies. He is the author of eleven books.
Leslie Armstrong is a Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies. She is the author ofThe Constitutional Rights of Women, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism and co-editor of Women and Right-Wing Movements and many other books. Her varied research interests are social movements, including student and peasant struggles, and Environmental and Women's Rights and History. Her publications include women Movements, besides several papers in national and international journals.She is a Life Member of North East India History Association, Research Society, Institute of North East women Studies, North East women Council of Social Science Research, National Association for Women Studies and Centre for Contemporary Theory.