Global Sociology, Live!

In the paper we grapple with the difficult question of the meaning of global sociology. guided by the ideas of antonio gramsci and polanyi, we define sociology as the study of society from the standpoint of civil society. global sociology, therefore, is the study of global capitalism and its political orders from the standpoint of an emergent global civil society. in an attempt to avoid the particular masquerading as the universal we organized lectures by distinguished sociologists located in different places in the planet to explore (1) the nature of neoliberal capitalism, (2) the logic of nation states and their relation to global political order, and (3) the possible emergence of a global civil society that might counter the expansion of markets