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Coffee and Power
To explain this extraordinary turn of events is the task of this landmark book, which fuses political economy and cultural analysis.
Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World
The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounting pressures of social and ecological problems are met by a confluence of intellectual trends that allow the questioning of entrenched assumptions and the unleashing of a forward-oriented sociological imagination. In Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World, a diverse collection of international experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet. Topics include: Global Inequality Multipolar Globalization Climate Change Contentious Politics and Social Movements Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives in Latin America An African-centred approach to Knowledge Production Post-Islamist Democracy Based on the revised papers of the Opening and Closing Plenaries of the Third ISA Forum of Sociology in Vienna, Austria, July 2016, which Markus Schulz organized on the theme "The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World."
Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion
Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early 1980s has spread throughout Latin America and beyond even though many poor countries that have privatized their social security systems, including Bolivia and El Salvador, lack some of the preconditions necessary to do so successfully. In a major step beyond conventional rational-choice accounts of policy decision-making, this book demonstrates that bounded--not full--rationality drives the spr...
Encrucijadas Abiertas
Este segundo tomo de los Ex-Presidentes de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología ve su aparición por bienvenida decisión de este colectivo intelectual de dar continuidad con sus expresiones científicas al pensamiento latinoamericano entrañado en su contexto histórico y contemporáneo. A ellos deben los lectores esta polifonía que propicia una ciencia social rigurosa con alto compromiso social. Decía Galeano que "el desarrollo es un viaje con más náufragos que navegantes." Esa preocupación de Galeano atraviesa la sociología latinoamericana, y de cierta manera, atraviesa este libro. Con una diversidad temática inmensa, en el fondo todos los ensayos de este libro muestran in...
