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Tables of Contents for Sociology of the Global System
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the first edition
xi
Preface to the second edition
xiii
A sociology of the global system
1
30
The global system and the nation-state
2
4
Transnational practices
6
4
Classifying the global system
10
16
Income-based classifications
12
4
Trade-based classifications
16
2
Resource-based classifications
18
3
Quality of life
21
2
Bloc-based classifications
23
3
Conclusion
26
2
Notes
28
3
Towards a theory of transnational practices
31
28
Theories of the global system
32
9
Imperialism
33
1
Modernization
34
1
Neo-Marxist theories
35
3
World-system theory
38
2
Modes of production theory
40
1
The politics of development
41
5
Economy, polity, culture-ideology
46
3
History and theory of the transnational corporation (TNC)
49
8
Research on the TNCs
50
2
TNCs and foreign direct investment
52
3
TNCs and Third World governments
55
2
Notes
57
2
Corporations, classes and consumerism
59
39
The conceptual space for transnational practices (TNP)
59
3
Economic transnational practices
62
6
Jobs
63
3
Linkages
66
2
Political transnational practices
68
2
The transnational capitalist class
70
9
Labour and capital
72
2
Downgrading of local practices
74
3
`Comprador' mentality
77
2
Counter movements
79
5
Protectionism
79
1
New Social Movements
80
2
The Green movement
82
2
Cultural-ideological transnational practices
84
3
The culture-ideology of consumerism
87
7
Informatics and consumerism
90
4
The theory of the global system: a summary
94
1
Notes
95
3
Transnational practices in the Third World
98
49
Economic TNPs in the Third World
99
5
The Volta Dam and linkages
100
4
Transnational corporations in the Third World
104
18
TNC employment
106
4
The sexual division of labour
110
5
Transnational pressures on TNCs
115
4
Training and technology
119
3
Transnational corporations and Third World food
122
11
Women and food production
123
2
Agribusiness
125
8
The transnational capitalist class in the Third World
133
11
The African bourgeoisie
137
3
Indigenization in Nigeria
140
3
Triple alliances and transnational capitalist classes
143
1
Notes
144
3
The culture-ideology of consumerism in the Third World
147
44
Consumerism and producerism
147
3
Cultural imperialism and media imperialism
150
9
Latin American research on the media
155
4
A new world information order
159
7
Control of global media markets
162
4
Advertising and the spread of consumerism
166
9
Global exposure
169
4
Delivering the goods
173
2
Case studies in global consumerism
175
11
The baby bottle-feed case
175
3
Drugs, health and profits
178
4
Cola wars
182
4
Conclusion
186
1
Notes
187
4
The socialist Third World in the global system
191
25
Communism and socialism defined
192
2
The socialist Third World
194
3
Cuba
194
2
Nicaragua
196
1
African Socialism
197
9
Tanzania
199
3
Mozambique
202
4
Choices for socialist societies
206
6
Conclusion
212
1
Notes
213
3
China and the global system
216
30
New China
216
20
The opening door
217
6
The labour market
223
3
`Classes' in the New China
226
10
The culture-ideology of consumerism in China
236
7
Notes
243
3
Postcommunist societies in the global system
246
18
Transnational practices and the Old Second World
248
6
TNCs in the Old Second World
251
3
Transitions from communism to postcommunism
254
9
Notes
263
1
Conclusion
264
18
TNCs and development
266
3
A Third Way?
269
13
Democracy
270
1
Feminism
271
4
Socialism
275
7
References
282
31
Index
313