| Description |
x, 265 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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? |
| Summary |
What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together with their interconnections forged, and what is driving human society in our times? In short, what is the state of the world today as we enter the second decade of the 21st century? This is the first book which deals with planetary human society as whole. It is a beginner's guide to the world after the West and after globalization, compact, portable, and jargon-free. It is aimed at everybody who, even with experience, has kept a beginner's curiosity of the world, to everybody who does not know everything they want to know about it, about the good, the evil, and the salvation of the world. It lays bare the socio-cultural geology of the world, its major civilizations, its historical waves of globalization, its family-sex-gender systems, and its pathways to modernity. It outlines the dynamics of the world, its basic drives, the contours of its most important global and sub-global processes. It presents the big team players on the world stage, populous as well as rich countries, missions and movements as well corporations and cities. It traces the life-courses of men and women on all the continents, from their birth and childhood to their old age, and their funeral |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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Human ecology -- History.
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Social ecology -- History.
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Social systems -- History.
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| LC no. |
2011281204 |
| ISBN |
9780745643434 hardback |
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0745643434 hardback |
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9780745643441 paperback |
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0745643442 paperback |
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