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The world : a beginner's guide / Göran Therborn.

By: Material type: TextTextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2011Description: x, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745643434
  • 9780745643434
  • 0745643442
  • 9780745643441
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.09051 22
LOC classification:
  • CB430 .T38 2011
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Why We Are Who We Are: A Sociocultural Geology of Today's World -- The Rock of Civilizations -- Family-Sex-Gender Systems -- Sediments of Six Waves of Globalization -- Pathways to Modernity and Their Legacy -- Legacies of the Routes to Modernity -- The Modern Fate of Religions -- Windows of Opportunity -- 2. World Dynamics: Human Evolution and its Drivers -- Modes of Livelihood: The Ups and Downs of Capitalism, and the Rest -- Population Ecology and the Ending of Modern Ecological Emancipation -- The Ethnic, Religious and Sexual Dynamics of Recognition and Respect -- Politics of Collective Power: State Apotheosis -- Culture: Modernism Globalized, Accelerated and Chastened -- Channels of Operation -- Global Processes -- National Processes -- 3. The Current World Stage -- Scenography: World Space -- The Big Players -- 4. Our Time on Earth: Courses of Life -- Birth and Survival -- Childhood -- Youth: Sex and Culture -- Adulthood -- Old Age -- An Ideal Twenty-first Century Life-course -- Death and After -- Conclusion: How We Got Here, and Where We Are Going -- How Did We Get Here? -- Where Are We Going?.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Why We Are Who We Are: A Sociocultural Geology of Today's World -- The Rock of Civilizations -- Family-Sex-Gender Systems -- Sediments of Six Waves of Globalization -- Pathways to Modernity and Their Legacy -- Legacies of the Routes to Modernity -- The Modern Fate of Religions -- Windows of Opportunity -- 2. World Dynamics: Human Evolution and its Drivers -- Modes of Livelihood: The Ups and Downs of Capitalism, and the Rest -- Population Ecology and the Ending of Modern Ecological Emancipation -- The Ethnic, Religious and Sexual Dynamics of Recognition and Respect -- Politics of Collective Power: State Apotheosis -- Culture: Modernism Globalized, Accelerated and Chastened -- Channels of Operation -- Global Processes -- National Processes -- 3. The Current World Stage -- Scenography: World Space -- The Big Players -- 4. Our Time on Earth: Courses of Life -- Birth and Survival -- Childhood -- Youth: Sex and Culture -- Adulthood -- Old Age -- An Ideal Twenty-first Century Life-course -- Death and After -- Conclusion: How We Got Here, and Where We Are Going -- How Did We Get Here? -- Where Are We Going?.

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