ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book helps the readers to understand social inequality in capitalist societies based on the empirical study of four countries from four world regions. The empirical study drew on existing theories, conceptual frameworks and methodologies but had to extend and modify them to include diverse societies from the global South. The book interprets phenomena of the social world from the perspective of meaningful practice. It argues that global inequality has to be interpreted as an order of global domination. This order is based on a combination of dominant classes and nation-states. The institution of the nation-state was key in the expansion of capitalism and in the attempts of dominant classes to achieve supra-regional and later global domination.
