Papers presented at the 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology in Beijing, China in July 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface, Masamichi Sasaki -- SECTION ONE: SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION -- On the Historicity of Globalization: Construction and Deconstruction of "Others", T. K. Oommen -- The Radical Changes of Chinese: Society and the Stable Progress of Chinese Sociology, Zheng Hangsheng -- SECTION TWO:CULTURAL DIVERSITIES IN GLOBAL CONTEXT -- Globalization, Cultural Diversity and East Asia: Toward the Possibility of Cultural Co-Operation, Aoki Tamotsu -- Globalization from a Sociological Angle, Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- On Baseline Equality, Jing Tiankui -- Globalization: Towards an East Asian Perspective, Giovanni Arrighi -- SECTION THREE MIGRATION: EQUALITY AND GLOBALIZATION -- Globalization in the Modern World, Vladimir I. Dobrenkov -- Inequalities of the World: Dimensions and Patterns, Göran Therborn -- New Trends in the Current Social Stratification Structure Of China, Li Qiang -- SECTION FOUR:GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: PART 1 -- National Community and Globalization in East Asia, Ken'ichi Tominaga, -- Social Capital and Social Transformations, Nan Lin -- Protecting the Rights of Children in the Age of Globalization, Dean R. Hirsch -- Globalization and the "Chinese Experience", Li Peilin -- SECTION FIVE:GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: PART 2 -- Three Prime Movers in the Contested Civil Society: Why and How Social Transformation Occurs in Korea, Han Sang-Jin -- Ubiquity of Political Mistrust across Continents, Cultures, Nations and Classes, Mattei Dogan -- SECTION SIX:GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- Nation-Building and Ethnicity, Ma Rong -- The Forming of the New Human Cooperative Mechanism Under Globalization, You-Mei Li -- Globalization and National Identity in Contemporary Society, Masamichi Sasaki -- Notes on Contributors.

The 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) was a true milestone in the history of IIS, for it heralded many firsts: the first World Congress to be held on the Asian Continent, the first to be held in China, and the largest attendance by far of any of the organization's World Congresses. This book is a compendium of 18 papers presented by plenary speakers from 10 different nations. It addresses sweeping issues related to the age of globalization and social change, including cultural diversities, migration and equality, social transformation, and national identity. Notable is an extraordinary diversity of viewpoints, approaches and opinions. Social Change in the Age of Globalization should be especially useful for those interested in learning more about social change in the context of globalization, especially in nations whose sociological communities are emerging, such as China and many other Asian nations.

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