Global Inequality

Rethinking Sociology in the 21st Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73360-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 329, 590 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1131 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

The book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between globalisation and transnationalisation and the development of social inequality. It addresses this challenge in the current transition to a multi-centred world. The contributions by international experts from different continents and different disciplines bring together current research on global inequality and social classes, covering a wide variety of thematic and spatial foci. This also includes a comparison of analyses of inequality in a global context. By bringing together analyses of inequalities in income, wealth, education, political influence, labor conditions, and socio-ecological inequalities, among others, the volume provides deeper insights into the ways in which global social inequalities are changing yet being reproduced in many ways in the 21st century. It calls for a discussion on the global dimensions of unequal power relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wimmer, Christopher

Rieder, Tobias

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Inequalities in a Globalizing World: Introduction Christopher Wimmer and Tobias Rieder

Part 1 Global Inequality: Conceptual Foundations

2 Shifting Borders: Inequality Between and Within States in the Longue Durée Andrea Komlosy

3 The Global Perspective on Income Inequality Arthur Zito Guerriero and Jakob Kapeller

4 Neoliberal Globalization and Its Inequalities in Question: Reclassificatory Contributions in the Perspectives of Polanyi, Callon and Quijano Alejandro Bialakowsky, Mariano Sasín, Tomás Nougués, Fermín Álvarez Ruiz, Elisa Ichaso and Agustín Bertelli

5 The Double Refinement of Distinction: (Re-)Production of Class Relations in Late Modern Capitalism with Marx and Bourdieu Jan Weckwerth

6 The ‘Middle Classes’ in Latin America: a Reconstruction of Social Changes and Social Science Discourses Bahareh Gondani, Matthias Riedmann and Adrian Scholz Alvarado

Part 2 Global Power and Class: Suffering and Privilege

7 Symbolic Domination and the Dividing Line of Respectability: Marginalization in Brazil and Germany Christopher Wimmer and Jessé Souza

8 Class and Trauma under Escalatory Capitalist Conditions: Theoretical Reflections Giorgos Bithymitris

9 Appropriating Developmentalism: the Transmodern Experience of a Community in the Colombian Pacific Basin Andrés Bateman

10 Universities as Elite Allies: Disclosing Global Patterns of Inequality in Tertiary Education across Time Magdalena Fellner

11 Undignified Capitalism, Authoritarianism and Racism: On the Brazilian Business Elite Fabrício Maciel

Part 3 Inequalities in the (Global) Labor Market

12 Global Value Chains or Global Inequality Chains? Uneven Power Relations and Rents in International Production Karin Fischer and Christian Reiner

13 The Need-Based Sector in the Global South: Surplus Populations and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in the Peripheries of 21st Century Capitalism Jakob Graf

14 Informal Work in Companies and Households: a Saving Couple for Global Capitalism? Johanna Sittel

15 A Class Approach for Characterizing and Comparing the Experiences of the Working Classes Across Countries Francisco Javier Ardila Suarez

Part 4 Social Class and Political Struggle

16 Social Class and the Far-Right Fabio Braun Carrasco

17 Social Class and Socio-Political Camps in Europe Tobias Rieder and Christian Schneickert

18 We’re Not All In This Together – We’re Not All Responsible: a Class Perspective on Socio-ecological Inequalities Hans Rackwitz

19 Investments and Innovation in Different Stages of Markets Globalization Gilberto Antonelli

20 Global Class Formation and the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism Ronald W. Cox and Joshua Gold

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Wimmer, Dr., Humboldt Universität (HU) zu Berlin, is a sociologist and author. From 2023-2024, he worked as a research assistant at HU Berlin. He has published several monographs and articles on social inequality, poverty research and marginalized groups, including "Exclusions and Marginalisation" (in: Global Handbook of Inequality, Springer, 2024) and Die Marginalisierten. (Über-)Leben zwischen Mangel und Notwendigkeit (Beltz, 2024).

Tobias Rieder, M.A., Berlin, is a sociologist with a focus on social inequality, classes, and milieus. Upon graduating from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in Social Sciences, he worked as a Personal Advisor to the Senator for Culture and Europe in Berlin from 2016 to 2023.