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"Today, as the world is threatened by anti-democratic movements, this edition adds a new early section on the origins of democratic values in 1700s-and a new concluding section that focuses on how, in the 2020s, social theorists are rethinking the world to better understand and resist the menace of anti-democracy movements"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Text Box Features -- Preface: Unknown Worlds -- Acknowledgments -- 1 World Under Siege: The Dark Side of Globalization -- 2 What Is Globalization? Economic, Political, and Cultural Clashes -- 3 When Did Globalization Begin? -- 4 Globalization in the Modern World-System, 1500-1914 -- 5 Changing Global Structures in the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 -- 6 The Globalization Debates: After the Short Twentieth Century and into the Twenty-First -- 7 The Future of Globalization: The Unknown Worlds to Come -- References -- Index -- About the Author

"Globalization: An Introduction to the End of the Known World" surveys the history of globalization from the earliest of ancient texts through contemporary debates and the prospects for anticipating the new worlds to come. At the end of the twentieth century, debates over the nature of globalization were unable to agree on a simple resolution, except to say that globalization is economic, political, and cultural all at once. Cultural globalization affects everyone with a smartphone, on which global youth from Los Angeles to Jakarta listen to Jay-Z and Beyonce. States are torn in several directions at once by unsettling economic, political, and cultural forces. Lemert concludes with a serious outline of the possible ways of imagining what the still-unknown global world will become next ways including optimism, caution, and skepticism."

Lies and life : the other Italians -- Baudrillard's death : end of the French era? -- Paul Piccone (1940-2004) : cruelty and murder in the academy -- Goffman's enigma -- Harold Garfinkel : pointing and the truth of the routine -- Structural aggravations : what cultures do -- Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir -- Said and "Edward" -- Niebuhr, Derrida, and death -- Why go to prison?

.cs7CED571B{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt}.cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; }.csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; }In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers. It introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable stories and interpreta

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to 2004 Edition -- Introduction to 1995 Edition -- 1 After the Crisis -- 2 Sociology as Theories of Lost Worlds -- 3 Modernity's Riddle and Durkheim's Lost Fathers -- 4 The End of Ideology, Really! -- 5 Measured Selves in Weak Worlds -- 6 Structuring Differences -- 7 Three Ways to Think Structures and Ignore Differences -- 8 Measuring the Subject's Secrets -- 9 The Future of Sociologies -- 10 Structuring Differences After the Structures Disappeared -- Notes -- Acknowledgments to 2004 Edition -- Acknowledgments to 1995 Edition -- Index -- About the Book and Author.

Bad Dreams of Big Business: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898Six; All Kinds of People Gettin' On, 1954; The Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903; Part III. Between, Before, and Beyond, 1873-2020; Seven; When Good People Do Evil, 1989; The Queer Passing of Analytic Things: Nella Larsen, 1929; Eight; What Would Jesus Have Done? 1965; The Race of Time: Deconstruction, Du Bois, and Reconstruction, 1935-1873; Nine; Dreaming in the Dark, November 26, 1997; Justice in the Colonizer's Nightmare: Muhammad, Malcolm, and Necessary Drag, 1965-2020; Ten; A Call in the Night, February 11, 2000.

The nature of poststructuralism is discussed in reference to the potential for a viable form of poststructuralist sociology (PSS). Poststructuralism is defined as a form of decentering that challenges traditional political & social mechanisms & discourses undermining social freedom. This emphasis demands that PSS recognize & actively pursue political aims, a goal mostly absent in traditional sociology. Therefore, PSS would abandon its role as a social science, discipline, & type of knowledge in favor of political self-consciousness & active opposition to all forms of social domination. At the methodological level, PSS relies on four basic assumptions: (1) theory is inherently discursive, (2) empirical reality is textual, (3) intellectual & scientific meaning is achieved through the relationship between empirical & theoretical texts, & (4) a discursive interpretation of reality facilitates better understanding of reality than traditional sociology. Drawing on a discursive analysis of the Vietnam War, it is concluded that PSS would significantly reduce the distance between sociology & real world social & political issues. 39 References. T. Sevier