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"Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose - and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global Finance offers a wider approach in three key ways, by: - setting markets and financial market failure in a historical context - bringing politics and culture back into the analysis of global finance - drawing on the latest thinking by sociologists of economic life. With a convincing argument for better regulation of markets, Robert Holton provides a fascinating insight into the volatile and often misunderstood world of global finance. This is a key text for undergraduate students of sociology, economics, business, and politics, as well as being an incisive, informative read for anyone with an interest in this topical issue"--

This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization - political, economic, social and cultural - and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization

The myth or reality of widespread social unrest in Britain in the period immediately before the First World War has attracted increasing attention among historians in recent years. Debate has centred upon two main themes, namely the character and impact of contemporary labour unrest, and the situation and prospects of the Liberal Party. Was British labour fundamentally disaffected from existing forms of industrial relations and from Parliamentary democracy? Was the pre-1914 Liberal Party already in decline and unable to withstand the advance of the Labour Party? Several recent writers have returned sceptical or largely negative conclusions to questions of this kind. In so doing they have sought to dispel a popularly held notion of incipient social breakdown and imminent social change, proposed amongst others by Dangerfield in The Strange Death of Liberal England.

1. Talcott Parsons and the theory of economy and society / Robert J. Holton -- 2. Sickness and social structure : Parsons' contribution to medical sociology / Bryan S. Turner -- 3. Parsons, Schutz and the problem of Verstehen / Roy Fitzhenry -- 4. Parsons and his critics : on the ubiquity of functionalism / Bryan S. Turner -- 5. Against nostalgia : Talcott Parsons and a sociology for the modern world / Robert J. Holton and Bryan S. Turner.

chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 SOCIOLOGY, INDIVIDUALISM, AND LIBERALISM -- chapter 2 MAX WEBER, AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS, AND THE NEW RIGHT -- chapter 3 MODERNISM, POST-MODERNISM, AND WORLD RELIGIONS: SOME ISSUES IN MAX WEBER'S SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION -- chapter 4 ON LAW, MORALITY, AND MODERN SOCIETY: THE RATIONALIZATION PROCESS -- chapter 5 STATUS POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM -- chapter 6 HAS CLASS ANALYSIS A FUTURE? MAX WEBER AND THE CHALLENGE OF LIBERALISM TO GEMEINSCHAFTLICH ACCOUNTS OF CLASS.