ABSTRACT

Social inequality is a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization has exacerbated and alleviated inequality over the past twenty-five years. This volume offers analytical and comparative insights from current case studies of social inequality in more than ten countries within all the major regions of the world. Contributors provide an assessment of the overall social globalization phenomenon in the global world as well as an outlook of transformations of global social inequality in the future. This book will be a timely addition for students and scholars of globalization studies, social inequality, sociology, and cultural and social anthropology.

part |2 pages

Part I Theoretical and Empirical Introduction: Globalization and Transformations of Social Inequality

part |2 pages

Part II Changing Dimensions of Social Inequality in a Global World

chapter 1|27 pages

Mobilities as Dimensions of Social Inequalities

ByKATHARINA MANDERSCHEID

chapter 2|18 pages

Impact of Remittances on Income Inequalities in Romania

ByANA MARIA ZAMFIR, CRISTINA MOCANU, EVA MILITARU,

chapter 4|20 pages

Gender, Inequality, and Globalization

ByILSE LENZ

part |2 pages

Part III Redistributive Mechanisms and Social Policies Tackling Social Inequality

chapter 6|16 pages

The Transformation of the Social Issue: Poverty, Society, and the State

ByANETE BRITO LEAL IVO AND RUTHY NADIA LANIADO

part |2 pages

Part IV Regional Case Studies on Globalization and Social Inequality

chapter 8|18 pages

Communities: A Lever for Mitigating Social Tensions in Urban China

ByAMANDINE MONTEIL

chapter 10|17 pages

Indian Society and Globalization: Inequality and Change

ByGÉRARD DJALLAL HEUZÉ

chapter 11|24 pages

Economic Globalization and the Empowerment of Local Entrepreneurs in Nigeria

ByADEYINKA OLADAYO BANKOLE

chapter 12|21 pages

Poverty in Senegal: Theoretical Approaches and the Manifestation of Poverty in People’s Living Conditions

ByFRANÇOIS-XAVIER DE PERTHUIS DE LAILLEVAULT AND ULRIKE SCHUERKENS