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Contemporary Readings in Globalization

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ISBN-10: 1412944716

ISBN-13: 9781412944717

Edition: 2008

Authors: Scott R. Sernau

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This reader was developed to be used in numerous courses taught in sociology, anthropology, history, political science and global studies. This book will fit into any course that is focused on contemporary global issues. It is appropriate for an introductory course, as well as for upper-division special topics courses. This book can be used in numerous disciplines and in numerous courses. The readings have been selected from numerous well respected journals as well as from the popular press. The journal articles have been edited to make them more user friendly for the undergraduate student. The reader includes numerous articles from SAGE social science journals. This reader allows…    
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List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.02" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Scott Sernau is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, South Bend where he regularly teaches Social Inequality, International Inequalities, Sociology of the Family, Race and Ethnic Relations, Social Problems, Mexican Culture and Society, and Urban Society. He has received a number of teaching awards including the IUSB Distinguished Teaching Award and the IU Sylvia Bowman Award for distinguished teaching. He is editor of the ASA Teaching Resources Guide: Social Stratification Courses: Syllabi and Instructional Materials and his several previous books include Economies of Exclusion: Underclass Poverty and Labor Market Change in Mexico (Praeger).

A Changing World
Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay
Journal of South Asian Development
Vol. 1 No. 1 2006
The Wal-Mart You Don't Know
Fast Company
December 2003
The Radical Thesis on Globalization and the Case of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
Latin American Perspectives
Vol. 29 No. 6. 2002
A Coffee Connoisseur on a Mission
The New York Times
June 22, 2006
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
Yes! Magazine
Summer 2006
Inequality and Poverty
Always With Us: Jeffrey Sachs plan to eliminate poverty
New Yorker
April 11, 2005
Born into Bondage
Smithsonian
September 2005
Pulling Rickshaws in the City of Dhaka
Environment and Urbanization
Vol. 17 No. 2 2002
The Good Samaritans: Melinda Gates, Bono, and Bill Gates
Time
January 2, 2006
Violencia Femicida: Violence Against Women and Mexico's Structural Crisis
Latin American Perspectives Vol. 33, No. 2
2006
How One Company Brought Hope to the Poor
Ode Magazine
April 2005
Education
The Right to Education in a Globalized World
Journal of Studies in International Education
Vol. 10 No. 1 Spring 2006
Breaking Down Notions of Us and Them: Answering Globalization with Global Learning
FDU Magazine
Spring 2006
A Would-Be Pilot, Hitting Turbulence on the Ground
The New York Times
April 30, 2005
Conflict
France: The Riots and the Republic
Race and Class Vol. 47 No. 2
2006
Torture: The Struggle Over a Peremptory Norm in a Counter-Terrorist Era
International Relations, Vol. 20, No 2
2006
Peace and Democracy for Haiti: A UN Mission Impossible?
International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 2
2006
Globalization and the Study of International Security
Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, No. 3. 2000
The Biggest Failure: A new approach to help the world's internally displaced people
Vol 4 No 141
2006
Health
Outsourcing Your Heart
Time Magazine
May 21, 2006
Rumor, Fear and Fatigue Hinder Final Push to End Polio
The New York Times
March 20, 2006
AIDS and Health-Policy Responses in European Welfare States
Journal of European Social Policy Vol. 14
2004
US Plan to Lure Nurses May Hurt Poor Nations
The New York Times
May 24, 2006
Energy
Exploitation of Energy Resources in Africa
Journal of Developing Societies Vol. 22, No. 1
2006
While Washington Slept
Vanity Fair
May 2006
Some Convenient Truths: stopping global warming
The Atlantic
September 2006
Shah M. Tarzi, Sociology Department, Bradley University, 1501 West Bradley Avenue, Peoria, IL 61625, Environment
A Financial Framework for Reducing Slums: Lessons from Experience in Latin America
Environment and Urbanization, 2003
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Tropic of Answer: Ecotourism
Grist Magazine
April 14, 2006
Strangers in the Forest
New Yorker
April 18, 2005
In American Waters
IU International News
Spring 2006