Global Inequality: An Introduction
Global Inequality: An Introduction
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全球不平等：简介
DOI：
10.5195/jwsr.2002.276
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
A. Bergesen
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作者：
M. Bata;A. Bergesen
尽管社会学家声称自己是科学家，但他们对全球不平等的分析却很少。c主要负责人类不平等和社会阶层研究的专家？阳离子大多数关于社会不平等的本科课程研究种族、阶级和性别，却从未承认最大的不平等存在于生活在发达社会与欠发达社会的个人和家庭之间。至少自19世纪70年代以来，国际不平等的程度远远超过了国家内部的不平等，当时在大英帝国治下的经济全球化浪潮增加了核心国家的平均工资，而使大多数边缘和半边缘国家处于维持生计的水平。日益加剧的不平等是世纪全球化最重要的后果之一，这一事实对于那些试图理解二十世纪世纪全球化可能产生的后果的人来说，具有重要意义。对全球资本主义的抵制和对权力象征的攻击可能会增加，就像世纪最后几十年贸易和投资大扩张后的几十年一样。因此，对社会科学家、政策制定者和全球公民来说，研究不平等加剧的原因是极其重要的，他们需要了解世界体系如何运作，以便改变它。
Global inequality has been little analyzed by sociologists despite their claim to be the scienti?c experts most in charge of the study of human inequalities and social strati?cation. Most undergraduate courses on social inequalities study race, class and gender without ever acknowledging that the greatest inequalities are between those individuals and households that live in developed versus less developed societies. The amount of international inequality has vastly outweighed within country inequalities since at least the 1870s when a wave of economic globalization under the Pax Britannica increased average wages in the core while leaving most of the periphery and the semiperiphery at subsistence levels. Increasing inequality was one of the most important consequences of nineteenth century globalization, and this fact is pregnant with importance for those who seek to understand what the consequences of twentieth century globalization may be. Resistance to global capitalism and attacks on symbols of power are likely to increase, just as they did in the decades following the great expansion of trade and investment in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Research into the causes of increasing inequalities is thus extremely important for social scientists, policy makers and global citizens who need to understand how the world-system works in order to change it.