Cover of Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives

Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives

Completely updated with a new chapter, this book is about global change and its impact on every aspect of our lives - and people's lives in very different parts of the world. The changes are broadly positive, liberating women, spreading democracy and creating new wealth.

Subject
sociologysocial sciencepoliticsphilosophyeconomics
Themes
politics
Setting
college
Audience
adult
Length
short · 104 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective Shares sociology, nonfiction, social sciences
  2. What Is Globalization? Shares sociology, globalization, nonfiction
  3. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting Shares sociology, nonfiction, politics
  4. Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values Shares nonfiction, philosophy, sociology

“People who read Runaway World: How Globalisation Is Reshaping Our Lives tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
  2. Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
  3. Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
  4. Unexpected News: Reading the Bible With Third World Eyes

“If you want more of the same (sociology about politics), start with these.”

  1. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
  2. Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
  3. Culture in a Liquid Modern World
  4. The Forest and the Trees

“If it was the social sciences that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The McDonaldization of Society
  2. Globalization: Education Research, Change and Reform
  3. Interaction Ritual Chains
  4. The Sociological Imagination

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. People styles at work-- and beyond : Making bad relationships good and good relationships better
  2. The Down-to-Earth Guide To Global Warming
  3. Radical Forgiveness: Making Room for the Miracle
  4. If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People