Globalization East and West - Brossura

Bryan Turner; Habibul Khondker

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1412928532 ISBN 13: 9781412928533

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Do we confuse globalization for Americanization? What are the distinctive elements in the interplay of the local and the global?

This much needed book is the first full length text to examine globalization from the perspective of both the West and the East. It considers globalization as a general social and economic process, and the challenges it presents for Western social science.

The meaning of a global perspective is explored through various concrete examples: religion, migration, medicine, terrorism, global disasters, citizenship, multiculturalism, media and popular culture.

Introduced with a forward from Roland Robertson the book is brimming with novel interpretations and fresh insights that will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of globalization.

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Recensione:

A wide-ranging, significant contribution
Göran Therborn
Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University

According to Turner and Khondker, globalization is an all-encompassing process by which humanity has entered a qualitatively distinct civilizational stage. Their [this] book offers a comprehensive, systematic and powerful account of the new world we are facing and will serve as an essential basis for scholarly innovations urgently required in all social sciences. This is a highly revealing yet balanced analysis of globalization that will intellectually enrich both academic and general readers
Professor Chang Kyung-Sup
Seoul National University

A lively, well-informed, and accessible guide through the dynamics and complexities of globalization. This volume shows why sociology rather than economics offers more powerful and far more subtle ways of understanding global trends and global crises
Robert Holton
Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin

Challenges the idea that globalisation is the same as Westernisation, imperialism or Americanisation. The direction of global processes is always changing, but crucially this is not a one-way street. Far too little attention has been paid to the fact that the influence of Asian culture on the West is at least as great as, if not more so, in the first decade of the 21st century as that of the West on the East
Ken Smith, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Bucks New University
Times Higher Education (THE)

L'autore:

Bryan Turner has served most recently as Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University and at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. From 2009-12 he will be the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, USA. Beginning in the spring semester of 2008-09, he will also be in residence at the Newhouse Center where his research will focus on the comparative sociology of secularism. He is the author of many bestselling titles, including The Body and Society , which is now in its third edition (SAGE, 2008), and The SAGE Handbook of Sociology.

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• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1412928532
• ISBN 13: 9781412928533
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256