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Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century Series)

Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century Series)

by ProfessorPhilipMcMichael (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

This new Edition in the Sociology for a New Century Series is intended to be used in any course in the undergraduate or beginning graduate curriculum that focuses on globalization. It is the first book published for undergraduates which presents a coherent explanation for how `globalization' took root in the public discourse and how `globalization' represents a shift away from `development' as a way to think about non-western societies.

The Third Edition is full of case studies that help to make the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear to students. It also includes new treatments of fundamentalism, terrorism, the AIDS crisis and the commercialization of services via the World Trade Organization.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Edition: Third Edition
 Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 19 Feb 2004
ISBN 10: 0761988106
ISBN 13: 9780761988106

Author Bio
Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and is an International Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His book Settlers and The Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Cambridge University Press, (c)1984) won the 1995 Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award. He has also edited The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Cornell University Press, (c)1994), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (Praeger, (c)1995), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Emerald, (c)2005), and Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, (c)2010). He has served as Director of Cornell University's International Political Economy Program, as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Political Economy of the World-System Section, and President of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Agriculture and Food for the International Sociological Association. And he has recently worked with the FAO, IATP and UNRISD, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, and the international peasant coalition, La Via Campesina.