Between Sex and Power (International Library of Sociology)

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century.This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.

Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 (International Library of Sociology)

Therborn, Göran

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an institution and of politics within the family, focusing on three dimensions of family relations: on the rights and powers of fathers and husbands; on marriage, cohabitation and extra-marital sexuality; and on population policy. Therborn's empirical analysis uses a multi-disciplinary approach to show how the major family systems of the world have been formed and developed. Therborn concludes by assessing what changes the family might see during the next century. This book will be essential reading for anybody with an interest in either the sociology or the history of the family.

The World: A Beginner's Guide

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.

History

Polity

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. <ul>
<li>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.</li> <li>It outlines the dynamics of the world, its basic drives, the contours of its most important global and sub-global processes.</li> <li>It presents the big team players on the world stage, populous as well as rich countries, missions and movements as well corporations and cities.</li> <li>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.</li> </ul>

The Killing Fields of Inequality

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is asocio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces ourcapabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity,our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participatein the world. This book shows that inequality is literally akilling field, with millions of people dying premature deathsbecause of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not onlyin the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries,as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK,Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millionsof human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations ofinequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class. But this book is about experiences of equalization too,highlighting moments and processes of equalization in differentparts of the world - from India and other parts of Asia, fromthe Americas, as well as from Europe. South Africa illustrates thetoughest challenges. The killing fields of inequality can beavoided: this book shows how. Clear, succinct, wide-ranging in scope and empirical in itsapproach, this timely book by one of the world’s leadingsocial scientists will appeal to a wide readership.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These lethal effects of inequality operate not only in the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries, as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK, Finland and elsewhere. Even when they survive inequality, millions of human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations of inequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class. But this book is about experiences of equalization too, highlighting moments and processes of equalization in different parts of the world - from India and other parts of Asia, from the Americas, as well as from Europe. South Africa illustrates the toughest challenges. The killing fields of inequality can be avoided: this book shows how. Clear, succinct, wide-ranging in scope and empirical in its approach, this timely book by one of the world’s leading social scientists will appeal to a wide readership.

European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies, 1945-2000

In this book one of Europe′s foremost sociologists offers a profound and accessible overview of the trajectory of European societies, East and West, since the end of World War II. Combining theoretical depth with factual analysis, Göran Therborn addresses the questions that underpin an understanding of the nature of European modernity, including: To what extent is the period 1945-2000 producing fundamental change and what are the areas of continuity? Have the societies of Europe become more similar to others on the globe or more distinctively European? What are the prospects of Europe after decades of postwar change and the end of the Cold War? Issues covered include the division of paid and unpaid labour,

Sage Publications Ltd.

Few concepts have been so intensively discussed or so widely sponsored as that of “ideology.” Whether read as the expression of social classes or attributed a material independence and efficacy, whether devalued as false and non-scientific or asserted as the necessary element of social practice, “ideology” has become an ineluctable conceptual reference across a range of works dealing with subjects as varied as science and politics, gender and cultural production.In this book, Göran Therborn makes a decisive contribution to the contemporary debate. Beginning with some critical reflections on Louis Althusser’s influential writings in the late sixties, Therborn develops a theory of the formation of human subjects. He then goes on to consider the material matrix of ideologies and the problem of ideological change, the ideological constitution of classes and the characteristics of the discursive order that regulates it. Turning to questions of state power and political struggle, Therborn provides a remarkable account of ideological domination that displaces traditional categories, and a fascinating analysis of the process of political mobilization.Brief yet wide ranging, probing yet succinct, The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology is a work of theoretical exploration that establishes new bearings for the current discussion of ideology.

Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology

Philosophy

Verso Books

Science, Class & Society: On the Formation of Sociology & Historical Materialism

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Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 (International Library of Sociology)

Between Sex and Power (International Library of Sociology)

The World: A Beginner's Guide

The World: A Beginner's Guide

The Killing Fields of Inequality

The Killing Fields of Inequality

European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies, 1945-2000

European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies, 1945-2000

Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology

Science, Class & Society: On the Formation of Sociology & Historical Materialism