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"Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading."
- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale University
Over recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global inequality. Arguably the biggest challenge of the 21st Century is the confrontation and eventual elimination of the processes of structural inequality that affect these millions of human beings today.
Facing an Unequal World tackles and critically examines key issues and challenges for global sociology across these interrelated themes:
- The dimensions of inequality and the configurations of structural inequalities and structures of power
- Conceptions of justice in different historical and cultural traditions
- Conflicts on environmental justice and sustainable futures
- The social injuries of inequality, and overcoming inequalities
Written by a selection of international key sociologists and academics, this is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in sociology alike.
About the author
Raquel Sosa Elízaga has degrees in Sociology, Latin American Studies, and PhD in History, National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has been Full Time Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, since January, 1976. Past positions held include:
- Vice President of Program of the International Sociological Association, from 2010 to 2014
- A member of its Program Committee from 1998 to 2002
- A member of its Executive Committee, from 2006 to 2010
- President of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología, from 1985 to 1987
- A member of its Council of Ex Presidents, since 2013
- Secretary of Social Development and of Culture in the Mexico City Government, from 2000 to 2005, and from 2005 to 2006.
Her publications include Educación y exclusión (UNAM, 2017), “Reflexiones sobre la tradición sociológica, los dilemas de nuestro tiempo y el porvenir” en Castañeda, Dávila et al, El futuro de las ciencias sociales en un entorno globalizado (UNAM, 2017); Hacia la recuperación de la soberanía educativa en América Latina: conciencia crítica y programa (UNAM/CLACSO, 2012); Pensar con cabeza propia. Educación y pensamiento crítico en América Latina (CLACSO, 2011); Cuadernos del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales 45(4) (2011); Co author with Irene Sánchez, América Latina: los desafíos del pensamiento crítico (Siglo XXI, 2004).
Summary
This edited volume explores significant themes in modern, global sociology, including inequality, structures of power, conceptions of justice and sustainable futures.
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Raquel Sosa has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading. Immanuel Wallerstein
