The Globalization Reader - Brossura

Boli, John

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ISBN 10: 0631214771 ISBN 13: 9780631214779

Casa editrice: Blackwell Publishers, 1999

Riassunto

The Globalization Reader makes sense of a term that has become an all-purpose catchword in contemporary debate. This Reader compiles the most relevant literature into a highly readable and accessible format, providing students and researchers with an indispensable understanding of the globalization process. The book includes selections from the best work of leading scholars, presenting distinctive explanations of the process of globalization. There are also descriptive entries on London, Manila, and Malawi, expressing the experience of globalization in everyday life. The book also focuses on global economic forces, global organization and cultural globalization including the construction of identities and the pervasive role of the mass media. The Reader concludes by examining the rise of world civil society as reflected in global environmental movements.

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Recensione

"A terrific place to start if one wants to get a sense of why globalization is attracting the attention of so many scholars, government officials and lay people." George Ritzer, University of Maryland, author of The McDonaldization of Society

"An authoritative and commodious collection, The Globalization Reader confronts an issue that now dominates social science discussion. Through an intelligent and judicious selection of key texts, Lechner and Boli explore the debates, explanations, experiences, and dimensions of the globalization process. The Reader covers the field systematically and expertly. Simply the best reader on globalization." Bryan S. Turner, University of Cambridge

"With this large, excellent selection of pieces written on globalization, we′ll have something to recommend to our friends and students who want to know the best opinions on this most important of subjects. Many of the authors are critics from the left, others embrace globalization, and there is a good sprinkling of both official and unofficial views. It′s a timely and well–done volume." Daniel Chirot, University of Washington

".the book deserves acknowledgement as a solid introduction, which maps out tthe major themes and issues that confront newcomers to the terrain." Progress in Development Studies

L'autore

Frank J. Lechner is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University in Atlanta. He has published numerous papers on global change, fundamentalism, secularization, and sociological theory. He is the co–editor, with L. van Vucht–Tijssen and J. Berting, of The Search for Fundamentals (1995).

John Boli is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published extensively on global culture and organizations, education, citizenship, and state power and authority. His books include Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875 (with George M. Thomas, 1999) and New Citizens for a New Society (1989).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0631214771
• ISBN 13: 9780631214779
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Redattore: Lechner Frank, Boli John
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile