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This analytical interdisciplinary approach to the study of behaviour in world society attempts to make relatively advanced material intelligible to those without the background of political science which has hitherto been necessary. Dr Burton, viewing world society as a total environment in which the behaviour of individuals, groups, nations and states occurs, describes ethnic, political, economic and ideological systems and discusses all aspects of behaviour: decision-making; roles, non-rational activity, problems of perception, values and conflict. He shows how such behaviour relates to that which we know in all social groups and in more confined areas, and states that any analysis of international society, its problems and conflicts, which explains behaviour at one social level differently from activity at another social level must be misleading. This book provides a stimulating and challenging analysis of world society which will interest a wide range of those studying international relations, sociology and politics in universities, schools and colleges of education

From a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book explores the manner in which legitimization can be constructed by people, groups or institutions under the contemporary pressures and possibilities of modern world society. Drawing on cosmopolitan theory, postcolonial sociology, systems theory, and historical sociology, it engages with questions of human rights, processes of individualization and the constitution of transnational spaces in its examination of the challenges to legitimization.

From a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book explores the manner in which legitimization can be constructed by people, groups or institutions under the contemporary pressures and possibilities of modern world society. Drawing on cosmopolitan theory, postcolonial sociology, systems theory, and historical sociology, it engages with questions of human rights, processes of individualization and the constitution of transnational spaces in its examination of the challenges to legitimization

The relationship between the English School's notion of `international society' or the `society of states' and various more sociologically informed conceptions of `world' or `global' society is here examined. The English School is located as a variant of classical realism and its notion of `international society' is then explicated by means of a contrast to the neo-realist idea of an international system. The English School's confrontation with John Burton's `cobweb' model of world society is then described and the potential for a relationship between a society of states and the Stanford School's conception of global society is argued. Modern systems theory is less compatible with English School thinking although the related notion of a world system has some affinities, especially with reference to its interest in the history of the modern world system. Finally, some difficulties with the conception of norms employed by the English School are outlined.

"The International Society – World Society Distinction" published on by Oxford University Press.