Abstract
1. The Sociological Perspective, Global Problems, and Globalization. I. NEGOTIATING THE NEW GLOBAL CULTURE. 2. Human Rights: Negotiating the New Civil Order. 3. Religion: Negotiating Cosmological Order. 4. Technology and Society: Negotiating the Natural Order. II. GLOBALIZATION AND CHANGING INSTITUTIONS. 5. Population and Urbanization: Too Many People, Too Few Resources. 6. Environmental Destruction: Depleting the Global Commons. 7. Global Political Systems: Power Shifts and a New World Order? 8. Global Economic Systems: From Exploitation to Interdependency? III. GLOBALIZATION: VICTIMIZATION AND EMPOWERMENT. 9. Women, Children, Families: Empowering the Building Blocks of Society. 10. Medicine and Education in a Global Society: Key Institutions of Empowerment. 11. Minority Group Tensions: Issues of Race and Ethnicity. 12. Terrorism, Crime, Repression, and Warfare: Violence in Global Society. EPILOGUE: REIMAGING THE FUTURE. Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Glossary. Index.
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