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The Future of Research on Global Inequalities
The Future of Research on Global Inequalities
Friday, July 18, 2014: 5:30 PM-7:20 PM
Room: F204
RC07 Futures Research (host committee) Language: English
New empirical evidence as well as a variety of innovative perspectives have recently challenged classical research on social inequality, which is mostly focused on present inequalities between individuals and social classes exclusively within national societies. On the one hand, findings coming from transnationalism research have shown how conventional research is insufficient to describe contemporary phenomena such as the emergence of a transnational middle class or new multilocal spaces created by migrants. On the other hand, the world system approach has convincingly demon strated that existing inequalities have been produced and reproduced through modern history across national borders. Therefore, a global and transnational frame is needed in order to explain how, for instance, increasing social inequalities resulting in more meat consumption in China lead to higher land-ownership concentration in Latin America; or how the social mobility of migrants in Germany impacts life conditions in a Turkish town. The papers in this session address conceptual aspects as well empirical results related to the present and the future of research on global inequalities.
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A World-Systems Methodology for the Study of Inequality (Oral Presentation)
Towards a Global Social Stratification: Evidence from Latin America (Oral Presentation)