George Ritzer, Paul Dean

Globalization (eBook, ePUB)

The Essentials

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers. Globalization: The Essentials explores the flows, structures, processes, and consequences of globalization in the modern economic, political, and cultural landscape. This comprehensive introduction offers balanced coverage of areas such as global economic and cultural flows, environmental sustainability, the impact of technology, and racial, economic, and gender inequality -- providing readers with foundational knowledge of globalization. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition includes expanded coverage of human trafficking and migration, global climate change, fake news and information wars, and transnational social movements with increased emphasis on examples from Central and South America, Africa, and Asia: * Offers a straightforward approach to the multiple facets of globalization and their positive and negative influences on contemporary society * Employs unique metaphors and a coherent narrative structure to promote intuitive understanding of abstract concepts * Introduces cutting-edge research, updated statistics, and real-world examples in areas such as rising global populism, social justice movements, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrencies * Provides an efficient and flexible pedagogical structure, allowing integration with instructor's own course material Emphasizing student comprehension, a wide range of source material is incorporated including empirical research, relevant theories, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular books and monographs. Examples of current research and recent global developments, such as emerging economies and global health concerns, encourage classroom discussion and promote independent study. Globalization: The Essentials -- a compact edition of the authors' full-sized textbook Globalization: A Basic Text -- provides concise coverage of the central concepts of this dynamic field. Offering a multidisciplinary approach, this textbook is an invaluable primary or supplemental resource for undergraduate study in any social science field, as well as coursework on economics, migration, inequality and stratification, and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119315254
• Artikelnr.: 54833455

Autorenporträt

GEORGE RITZER is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, USA. He is author of numerous books including The McDonaldization of Society (9th ed., 2019) and editor of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) and The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (2012). PAUL DEAN is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Justice at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher in areas including globalization, social inequality, economic sociology, social movements, race and ethnicity, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He is co-author with George Ritzer of Globalization: A Basic Text (2nd ed. 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xii

About the Companion Website xiii

1 Globalization 1

Conceptualization, Origins, and History Conceptualizing Globalization 3

From "Solids" to "Liquids" 4

"Flows" 7

"Heavy" and "Light" 8

"Heavy" Structures that Expedite "Flows" 10

"Heavy" Structures as Barriers to "Flows" 12

Subtler Structural Barriers 16

Origins and History of Globalization 17

Hardwired 17

Cycles 18

Phases 18

Events 19

Broader, More Recent Changes 20

Chapter Summary 23

Discussion Questions 24

Further Reading 24

References 25

2 Theorizing Globalization 29

Imperialism 30

Colonialism 32

Development 33

Americanization 35

Anti-Americanism as a Global Process 37

Neoliberalism 38

Neoliberalism: Basic Ideas 41

The Neoliberal State 42

Critiquing Neoliberalism: Karl Polanyi 43

Contemporary Criticisms of Neoliberalism 44

Neo-Marxian Theories 46

Transnational Capitalism 46

Empire 48

Chapter Summary 51

Discussion Questions 53

Further Reading 53

References 54

3 Structuring the Global Economy 58

Before Bretton Woods 59

A Prior Epoch of Globalization 59

Economic Development During and After WW II 60

Bretton Woods and the Bretton Woods System 61

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 63

World Trade Organization (WTO) 64

International Monetary Fund (IMF) 65

World Bank 67

The End of Bretton Woods 69

Changes in, and Critiques of, Bretton Woods-Era Organizations 70

Other Important Economic Organizations 74

The Role of Emerging Economies 75

The Multinational Corporation (MNC) 76

The Myth of Economic Globalization? 79

Chapter Summary 80

Discussion Questions 81

Further Reading 81

References 82

4 Global Economic Flows 85

Trade 86

Trade Surpluses and Deficits 86

Global Trade: Economic Chains and Networks 87

Global Value Chains 88

T-Shirts 88

iPhones 90

Conventional, Hybrid, and Electric Automobiles 91

Increasing Competition for Commodities 92

The Economic Impact of the Flow of Oil 93

Oil Wealth 94

Race to the Bottom and Upgrading 96

Upgrading in the Less Developed World? 96

Outsourcing 98

Financial Globalization 100

The Great Recession 100

Consumption 104

Consumer Objects and Services 106

Consumers 106

Consumption Processes 106

Consumption Sites 107

Global Resistance 107

Chapter Summary 108

Discussion Questions 109

Further Reading 109

References 109

5 Global Political Structures and Processes 113

On Political Flows 114

The Nation-State 115

Threats to the Nation-State 116

Global Flows 116

Universal Human Rights 117

Sustainability and Liquid Sovereignty 118

In Defense of the Nation-State 119

"Imagined Community" 120

Changes in Global Nation-State Relations 122

The European Union and Brexit 122

China 125

United Nations (UN) 126

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 127

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and C