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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.
- Sales Rank: #1883437 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Polity
- Published on: 2011-02-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Göran Therborn's The World: A Beginner's Guide, a survey of the present state, problems and outlook of the globe by a Swedish master sociologist, is one of the rare books that lives up to its title. It is lucid, intelligent about the future and admirably researched."
Guardian, books of the year 2011
"Therborn's work represents what great comparative/historical sociology is all about. Essential."
Choice
"[Therborn] compresses a vast and fascinating range of historical and current world data into a detailed but intelligible account of the changes in planetary human society."
Morning Star
"At a time when historians and economists tend to retire behind the barricades of their increasingly specialized professions, answering the big comparative questions about the pathways into and out of modernity, the global processes of inequality and the forces of possible change have been largely left to the sociologists. In my view, Göran Therborn, probably Sweden's most distinguished social scientist, has made more essential contributions in these fields than anyone else, by a combination of analytical lucidity, common sense and an extraordinary command of international comparative data. For those who have read any of his earlier works, the appearance of a new book is inevitably a major intellectual event."
Eric Hobsbawm
"Göran Therborn has written another of his incredible empirical surveys, this time of the whole world today, in its historical context. He calls it a beginner's guide. Every reader will emerge better equipped to understand the realities of our world, and hopefully to act intelligently in the light of these realities."
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
"We are in an unprecedented world, spanned by a joined-up economy and a global moral community. Professor Therborn - a practical, craftsmanlike sociologist, who works on a human scale - is an ideal guide to our unfamiliar present and future, who, without condescension, makes sense of complexity and turns bafflement into clarity."
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame
From the Back Cover
What is the world of the twenty-first century like now that the centrality of the West can no longer be taken for granted? 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 twenty-first century?
This is the first book to deal with planetary human society as a whole. It is a beginner's guide to the world after the West and after globalization, compact, portable and jargon-free.
It lays bare the sociocultural geology of the world, its major civilizations, its historical waves of globalization, its family-sex-gender systems and its pathways to modernity. 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. 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 and has the desire to know more.
About the Author
Göran Therborn is Professor of Sociology at University of Cambridge.
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By Diziet
Göran Therborn is a Marxian influenced sociology professor working in Cambridge. In this book, he attempts an overview of 'the world'. As he says in the prologue:
"...this is a beginner's guide, written for all those of us who are curious about this world, those of us who do not already know everything we want to know, who do not know everything we need to know about the evil, the good and the salvation of this world. On offer is not a primary of mainstream wisdom, it is an individual scholar's vision, coming out of half a century of social study and carried by his personal passion for human freedom and equality, and for empirical evidence." (P ix)
The book is divided into four basic sections:
1. Why We Are Who We Are: A Sociocultural Geology of Today's World
2. World Dynamics: Human Evolution and Its Drivers
3. The Current World Stage
4. Our Time on Earth: Courses of Life
He describes the first section as a 'sociocultural geology, of enduring, layered history, looking at enduring effects of ancient civilisations, multiple waves of globalization, different pathways to modernity.' (P3).
Moving on, he identifies 'five irreducible drives of humankind which constitute the world dynamics' (P4).
In 'The Current World Stage' Therborn considers the world stage of 'geopolitics and geoeconomics, but also of a media show...[The] focus here will be primarily on the small set of big collective players dominating the field of world power.' (P4)
In the fourth section, he looks at 'the human life-course, our finite time on earth', how our individual life courses are mapped out and influenced, how our opportunities are extended or narrowed, 'propelled - or blocked - by the dynamics of the contemporary world stage.' (P4)
Finally, and rather bravely, he attempts to predict where we are going.
No small task then, in a book of not much more than 200 or so pages. But it is absolutely fascinating. His style reminds me very much of Eric Hobsbawm - not only the sometimes labyrinthine sentence structure, but also the almost Olympian stance, seemingly able to (mostly) distance himself from his own milieu. Mostly, that is, except when confronted by some of the more absurd geopolitical situations:
'Comparing al-Qaeda to Nazi Germany, as Barack Obama did in his acceptance speech on receipt of the Nobel Peace [!] Prize...in order to justify his escalation of wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, manifests the continuity of imperial politics, which started with George W Bush using the Islamist al-Qaeda attacks as a motivation for invading the secular regime of Iraq. Obama, who in contrast to his predecessor is neither stupid nor ignorant, knows, of course, that his argument has no substance, that it was no more than cheap rhetoric employed to trick a gullible audience.' (P100) (N.b. The [!] is in the original).
Perhaps it's a bit unfair to quote that passage - but it stands out because of its contrast with most of the rest of the book, which is cool, calm, analytical, perhaps a little dry in places (there are inevitably a large number of statistical tables) but which manages to be at the same time both sweeping and remarkably inclusive.
Another striking passage, but relying heavily on statistics:
'Total world employment in 2009 was about three billion people, roughly the same size as the urban or rural population. Registered unemployment amounted to 200-220 million, i.e. more than all the inhabitants of Brazil. The International Labour Organisation estimates that the financial crisis of 2008 will push up the number of unemployed worldwide by about 50 million - equal to the population of Argentina (ILO 2010: figs 3 and 4), i.e. by more than the population of South Africa, South Korea or Spain, a chilling illustration of the enormous power of a handful of reckless gamblers at the helm of a few US and British banks.' (P174)
The use of statistics strongly underpins Therborn's identification of global trends but his use of an historical perspective adds a kind of narrative force to this analysis which kept me fascinated. For example, shortly after the passage quoted above, he goes on:
'The social structure of world capitalism has changed profoundly. Industrialisation in the OECD peaked, in labour force terms, in the mid-1960s, and has been followed since the 1970s by a process of deindustrialisation. No country will ever again be dominated by industrial employment, as Europe once was. Even in China, the service sector is already larger than the industrial sector.' (P175)
Overall then, this really is a fascinating book. The writing can be a bit dense at times but overall the way Therborn divides his global analysis into four sections, then develops his themes within those sections, backed up with copious statistics (and an extensive and very helpful bibliography), makes for a remarkable study. It is a starting place from where we can step on to further study. But it's also a contextualisation of global trends, helping to make sense of the seemingly unconnected events that we see day-to-day.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
State of the World
By Ulrich Gdhler
Göran Therborn is a Swedish sociologist, Professor emeritus at Cambridge. He published many articles in the “New Left Review”. “The World: A Beginner’s Guide” is a sociological portrait of the world in 2009. I read Therborn’s portrait in order to challenge my own perhaps slightly dated view of the world. For me the book is an antidote against Euro-centrism and a challenge to some of my assumptions about the global working-class.
Therborn starts depicting the large world civilizations. This gives a valuable background for any discussions about the “Clash of Civilizations”. Therborn shows the religious pluralism of the predominantly this-worldly sinic civilization and the poly-religious Indic civilization. Christianity and Islam are both arms of conquest. “The World” also shows different family systems and courses of life in different civilizations.
Therborn then develops a historic model of several waves of globalization, which have left their traces in the civilizations. Only the last wave of generalized imperialism has created the split between the developed and underdeveloped world 1830-1918. Therborn’s model can be discussed with Immanuel Wallerstein’s and Giovanni Arrighi’s World System Theory.
Therborn recently wrote in the “New Left Review” about the social background of the historical defeat of the European and American labour movement. In his portrait of the world in 2009 Therborn explains that only 40 percent of the global labour work force now works directly in capital-labour nexus. A process of de-industrialization in OECD countries since the 1960s has weakened the working class.
Therborn provides facts and models which can be used to adjust traditional Marxist assumptions about the philosophy of history.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Good read.
By Critic
Clever ideas. Good read.
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