This edited volume explores significant themes in modern, global sociology, including inequality, structures of power, conceptions of justice and sustainable futures.

Chapter 1: Introduction - Raquel Sosa ElízagaPart One: Capitalism and Inequality: Globalized Economies and Fractured SocietiesChapter 2: When Extractive Logics Rule: Proliferating Expulsions - Saskia SassenChapter 3: Resilience, Resistance and Rewiring the World Economy: A View from the South - Ari SitasChapter 4: Stratification Requiescat in Pace: Paradigm Shift: From ¿Stratification¿ and Mobility to Inequality - Göran TherbornPart Two: Economic, Territorial and Social Dimensions of InequalityChapter 5: Globalization, Uneven Economic Development, Inequality and Poverty: The Interactive Effects Between Position in the Modern World System and Domestic Stratification Systems - Harold KerboChapter 6: Poverty and Inequality in the Arab World - Habibul Haque KhondkerChapter 7: Amazonia: Territorial Tensions in Progress - Carlos Walter Porto-GoncalvesChapter 8: Climate Change and Vulnerable Urban Groups: Comparative Analysis of Taipei and Kaohsiung - Keng-Ming Hsu & Hsin-Huang Michael HsiaoChapter 9: The Coming of the New Class Society: Gender Matters - Chizuko UenoChapter 10: Duel of the Dualisms: Production and Reproduction Reconfiguring - Susan A. McDanielChapter 11: The Historic Environment in Opposition to Social Inequalities - Hiroyuki TorigoeChapter 12: The Capability Approach, Social Development and Human Rights - Jean-Michel BonvinChapter 13: Two Dissident Ways of Reading on Inequality - Ana Esther CeceñaChapter 14: Framing Arab Poverty Knowledge Production: A Socio-bibliometric Study - Sarah El Jamal & Sari HanafiPart Three: Reforms, Resistance and Alternatives: New Ways Towards Social JusticeChapter 15: The Limits of Reform in Liberal Democracies - Walden BelloChapter 16: Tensions Between Development, Public Policies to Confront Poverty/Inequality and the Defense of Pluriculturality in South America - Edgardo LanderChapter 17: Inequitable Access to Citizenship in Democratic States: An Exploration of the Limits of Gendered Social Policies for the Attainment of Gender Inequality - Grace KhunouChapter 18: Collective Right to Life and New Social Justice: the Case of the Bolivian Indigenous Movement - Paulo Henrique MartinsChapter 19: Demanding Justice: Popular Protests in China - Chih-Jou Jay ChenChapter 20: Thomas Piketty and the Marikana Massacre - Peter AlexanderChapter 21: From Tekel to Gezi Resistance in Turkey: Possibilities for a Combined Rights Movement - Aylin TopalChapter 22: Socio-ecological Inequality and the Democratization Process - José Esteban Castro