ABSTRACT
Since the 1970s, various sociological approaches have tried to understand and conceptualize "the global," yet few of them have systematically addressed the full spectrum of social relationships. Prominent exponents of the global approach - such as world systems analysis - instead have focused on particular domains such as politics or the economy. Under the label of "world society," however, some authors have suggested alternatives to the predominant equivocation of society and the nation-state. The contributions to this volume share that objective and take their point of departure from the two most ambitious projects of a theory of world society: world polity research and systems theory, mapping out the common ground and assessing their potential to inform empirical analyses of globalization.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Differentiation of World Society
chapter 2|14 pages
Comparing Systems Theory and Sociological Neo-Institutionalism
chapter 3|24 pages
The Two Faces of World Society
part II|111 pages
Global Fields in World Society
chapter 5|22 pages
What Do Nation-States Compete For?
chapter 7|21 pages
The Globalization of Transitional Justice
chapter 8|29 pages
Religious Differentiation and World Culture
part III|106 pages
Organizations in World Society
part IV|27 pages
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