Sociology of the Global System

by Leslie Sklair (Author)

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  Paperback
  1995

  $25.32

  An updated version of Sklair's overview of what the global system is and how it works through an analysis of transnational practices - economic, political and culture-ideological. The second edition takes into account recent political changes in Eastern Europe and includes more on global environmental change, the transnational capitalist class and postmodernism.

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  Paperback
  1990

  $3.44

  This book aims to establish the conceptual viability of the global system by presenting some sociological propositions about how it works, and why it works in the ways that it does. While not ignoring a more traditional state-centred approach, Leslie Sklair offers a conception of the global system based on transnational practices. He argues that these operate in three spheres: economic; political; and cultural-ideological. In the concrete conditions of the world as it is, a world largely structured by global capitalism in its various forms, each of these practices is typically, if not exclusively, characterized by a key institution.