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This volume serves as a companion to Martin Albrow's previous book China's Role in the Shared Common Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership (2018). It consists of essential selections of work on the theory and practice of globalization (Chapter 2) by the author, the British social theorist and pioneer of global studies, based on his 60-year academic career, which lays a solid theoretical foundation for this book. In the past 10 years, th...

This volume serves as a companion to Martin Albrow's previous book China's Role in the Shared Common Future: Towards Theory for Global Leadership (2018). It consists of essential selections of work on the theory and practice of globalization (Chapter 2) by the author, the British social theorist and pioneer of global studies, based on his 60-year academic career, which lays a solid theoretical foundation for this book. In the past 10 years, th...

This book is about China's role in the world to come and includes the author's recent explorations of China's readiness to assume a global leadership role. The book effectively links the study of Max Weber, an important Western theorist during the global transformation of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, with the study of Xi Jinping's thinking during the global transformation from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. According to t...

This book is about China's role in the world to come and includes the author's recent explorations of China's readiness to assume a global leadership role. The book effectively links the study of Max Weber, an important Western theorist during the global transformation of the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, with the study of Xi Jinping's thinking during the global transformation from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. According to t...

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This is a book for anyone who wants to know what sociology is and what sociologists do. In a subject which has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, Sociology: The Basics offers the most up to date guide to the major topics and areas of debate. It covers among other things: * sociology and society* laws, morality and science* social relations* power and communication* society in the future* becoming a sociologist.Clearly written, co...

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Albrow breaks new ground. The analysis is as erudite, cogent, and lucid as it is bold and insightful. The writing is clear and crisp, and readers will appreciate the structuring of chapters and the elegant references running throughout the text. This is sociological writing at its best."--Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University

IDo Organizations Have Feelings? argues that any adequate organizational narrative for today must transcend the emotion/rationality divide and challenges the manager, the consultant and the business schools to take sociology seriously. The papers in this important collection were written over a period of thirty years by one of the leading world authorities on the sociology of organizations. Now presented together for the first time with an ext...

Many authors who discuss the idea of globalization see it as continuing pre-established paths of development of modern societies. Post-modernist writers, by contrast, have lost sight of the importance of historical narrative altogether. Martin Albrow argues that neither group is able to recognize the new era which stares us in the face.

IDo Organizations Have Feelings? argues that any adequate organizational narrative for today must transcend the emotion/rationality divide and challenges the manager, the consultant and the business schools to take sociology seriously. The papers in this important collection were written over a period of thirty years by one of the leading world authorities on the sociology of organizations. Now presented together for the first time with an ext...