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Global Inequality

Rethinking Sociology in the 21st Century
Buch | Softcover
592 Seiten
2026
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
9798888908204 (ISBN)
CHF 78,55 inkl. MwSt
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An invaluable guide to understanding the relationship between globalization, transnationalization and the development of social inequality.



Global Inequality addresses challenges in the transition to a multi-centered world. The contributions by international experts from different continents and different disciplines bring together current research on global inequality and social classes, covering a wide variety of thematic and spatial foci. This also includes a comparison of analyses of inequality in a global context. By bringing together analyses of inequalities in income, wealth, education, political influence, labor conditions, and socio-ecological inequalities, among others, the volume provides deeper insights into the ways in which global social inequalities are changing yet being reproduced in many ways in the twenty-first century. It calls for a discussion on the global dimensions of unequal power relations.

Christopher Wimmer is a sociologist and author. From 2023-2024, he worked as a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität (HU) zu Berlin. He has published several monographs and articles on social inequality, poverty research and marginalized groups, including "Exclusions and Marginalisation" (in: Global Handbook of Inequality, Springer, 2024) and Die Marginalisierten. (Über-)Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit (Beltz, 2024). Tobias Rieder is a sociologist with a focus on social inequality, classes, and milieus. Upon graduating from Humboldt Universität (HU) zu Berlin in Social Sciences, he worked as a Personal Advisor to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin from 2016 to 2023.

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Notes on Contributors



1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: Introduction

 Christopher Wimmer and Tobias Rieder



Part 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations



2 Shifting Borders: Inequality Between and Within States in the Longue Durée

 Andrea Komlosy



3 The Global Perspective on Income Inequality

 Arthur Zito Guerriero and Jakob Kapeller



4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and Quijano

 Alejandro Bialakowsky, Mariano Sasín, Tomás Nougués, Fermín Álvarez Ruiz, Elisa Ichaso and Agustín Bertelli



5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and Bourdieu

 Jan Weckwerth



6 The ‘Middle Classes’ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science Discourses

 Bahareh Gondani, Matthias Riedmann and Adrian Scholz Alvarado



Part 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege



7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and Germany

 Christopher Wimmer and Jessé Souza



8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical Reflections

 Giorgos Bithymitris



9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific Basin

 Andrés Bateman



10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across Time

 Magdalena Fellner



11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business Elite

 Fabrício Maciel



Part 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market



12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International Production

 Karin Fischer and Christian Reiner



13 The Need-Based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century Capitalism

 Jakob Graf



14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism?

 Johanna Sittel



15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes Across Countries

 Francisco Javier Ardila Suarez



Part 4 Social Class and Political Struggle



16 Social Class and the Far-Right

 Fabio Braun Carrasco



17 Social Class and Socio-Political Camps in Europe

 Tobias Rieder and Christian Schneickert



18 We’re Not All In This Together – We’re Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological Inequalities

 Hans Rackwitz



19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets Globalization

 Gilberto Antonelli



20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism

 Ronald W. Cox and Joshua Gold

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.8.2026
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Verlagsort Chicago
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13 9798888908204 / 9798888908204
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