Constructing World Culture

International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875
Herausgeber: Boli, John; Thomas, George M

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book illuminates the central role played by international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in the emergence and development of a comprehensive world polity. The contributors argue that the enormous proliferation of INGOs since 1875--including international environmental organizations, human rights groups, bodies formed to regulate technical standards, and economic development organizations, among others--both reflects and contributes to the spread of global institutions and cultural principles based on models of rationality, individualism, progress, and universalism. The contributors contrast this world-polity perspective to other approaches to understanding globalization, including realist and neo-realist analyses in the field of international relations, and world-system theory and interstate competition theory in sociology. >

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780804734226
• ISBN-10: 0804734224
• Artikelnr.: 21532082

Autorenporträt

John Boli is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He is the author of New Citizens for a New Society: The Institutional Origins of Mass Schooling in Sweden. George M. Thomas is Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. He is the author of Revivalism and Cultural Change: Christianity, Nation Building, and the Market in the Nineteenth-Century United States.