What in the World?: Understanding Global Social Change Albert Mathias
What in the World?: Understanding Global Social Change Albert Mathias Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience…
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What in the World?: Understanding Global Social Change Albert Mathias
Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change.
In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global