The Great Global Transformation Gender, Race, and Democracy in the Age of Capitalism /

The Great Global Transformation Gender, Race, and Democracy in the Age of Capitalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glassman, Ronald M. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XXI, 269 p.
text
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
Edition:1st ed. 2025.
Series:Contributions to Political Science,
Subjects:
Comparative government.
Political science.
Schools of economics.
Labor economics.
Population > Economic aspects.
Economics.
Artificial intelligence.
Comparative Politics.
Political Theory.
Heterodox Economics.
Labor and Population Economics.
Political Economy and Economic Systems.
Artificial Intelligence.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90566-7
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Karl Polanyi’s Vision and Beyond
  • Chapter 1. Karl Polanyi’s Vision: Free Market Capitalism and the Transformation of the World – Polanyi’s Vision and Its Shortcomings
  • Chapter 2. Beyond Polanyi
  • Part II: The Economic Transformation to High Technology Industrial Capitalism
  • Chapter 3. The Economic Transformation to High Technology Industrial Capitalism
  • Chapter 4. The Rapid but Uneven Transition to High Technology Industrial Capitalism
  • Chapter 5. Polanyi Again: the Effect of the Market on Human Social Interactions
  • Part III: the Social and Cultural Transformations of the 21st Century
  • Chapter 6. Global Culture vs. Tribal Identity
  • Chapter 7. Women’s Liberation in Historical Perspective
  • Chapter 8. Some Unintended Effects of Women’s Liberation
  • Chapter 9. Gay Liberation in Socio-historical Perspective
  • Chapter 10. Gay Liberation and World Religions
  • Chapter 11. Gay Liberation and New Definitions of Gender
  • Chapter 12. The Remarkable Case of Greece: Ancient, Byzantine Christianity and Modern
  • Part IV: Science and Secular Humanism as the New Global Zeitgeist
  • Chapter 13. The History of the Rational-scientific Worldview
  • Chapter 14. Science and Religion in the Modern World
  • Chapter 15. Science and Humanistic Ethics
  • Chapter 16. Emile Durkheim’s Theory of Social Change and Anomie: the Impact of the Social and Cultural Changes on the Emerging Global Society
  • Part V: The Political Transformation to Electoral Democracy and Legal-rational Authority
  • Chapter 17. The Third Wave of Democracy
  • Chapter 18. The New Wave of Dictatorship Begins to Displace the Third Ave of Democracy
  • Chapter 19. Max Weber’s Theory of the Transition From Traditional Authority to Legal-rational Authority, With Charismatic Leadership as a Bridge Between Them
  • Part VI: Technological Change Beyond Our Imagination and It’s Sociological Impact
  • Chapter 20. The Technological Change and Its Sociological Impact
  • Part VII: Our Place in the Universe
  • Chapter 21. The Universe and Our Place in It
  • Chapter 22. Can Humanistic Ethics Predominate on the Big Blue Marble?.

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