The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ritzer, George

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Produktbeschreibung

This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical evaluations. * Introduces the major players, theories, and methodologies * Explores the major areas of impact, including the environment, cities, outsourcing, consumerism, global media, politics, religion, and public health * Addresses the foremost concerns of global inequality, corruption, international terrorism, war, and the future of globalization * Wide-ranging and comprehensive, an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students in a range of disciplines

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 752
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470766422
• Artikelnr.: 38206997

Autorenporträt

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He was awarded the 2000 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award by the American Sociological Association and he has authored more than 25 books including several student textbooks. He has been a major contributor to the literature on globalization, especially in The McDonaldization of Society (4 editions, last in 2004), Expressing America: A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society (1995) and most recently (2004), The Globalization of Nothing (2nd edition to be published in 2007 as The Globalization of Nothing 2). He is editor of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction
George Ritzer 1
PART I: INTRODUCTION 15
Introduction to Part I
George Ritzer 16
1. Globalization in Hard Times: Contention in the Academy and Beyond
Anthony McGrew 29
2. What Is Globalization?
Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White 54
3. The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization
Robert J. Antonio 67
4. Globalization: The Major Players
George M. Thomas 84
5. Globalization Today
John Boli and Velina Petrova 103
6. Theories of Globalization
William I. Robinson 125
7. Studying Globalization: Methodological Issues
Salvatore Babones 144
8. Cosmopolitanism: A Critical Theory for the Twenty-fi rst Century
Ulrich Beck 162
PART II: THE MAJOR DOMAINS 177
Introduction to Part II
George Ritzer 178
9. The End of Globalization? The Implications of Migration for State,
Society and Economy
Subhrajit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi 201
10. Globalization and the Agrarian World
Philip McMichael 216
11. Globalization and the Environment
Steve Yearley 239
12. Cities and Globalization
Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma 254
13. The Sociology of Global Organizations
Stewart Clegg and Chris Carter 272
14. Economic Globalization: Corporations
Peter Dicken 291
15. Outsourcing: Globalization and Beyond
George Ritzer and Craig Lair 307
16. Globalization and Consumer Culture
Douglas J. Goodman 330
17. Cultural Globalization
John Tomlinson 352
18. Globalization and Ideology
Manfred B. Steger 367
19. Media and Globalization
Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce 383
20. Globalization and Information and Communications Technologies: The Case
of War
Howard Tumber and Frank Webster 396
21. Political Globalization
Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford 414
22. Globalization and Public Policy
Tim Blackman 429
23. Religion and Globalization
Peter Beyer 444
24. Globalization and Higher Education
Peter Manicas 461
25. Sport and Globalization
David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger 478
26. The Fate of the Local
Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada Jr 498
27. Public Health in a Globalizing World: Challenges and Opportunities
Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach 516
PART III: MAJOR ISSUES AND CONCLUSIONS 539
Introduction to Part III
George Ritzer 540
28. Globalization and Global Inequalities: Recent Trends
Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling 549
29. World Inequality in the Twenty-fi rst Century: Patterns and Tendencies
Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran 565
30. Globalization and Corruption
Carolyn Warner 593
31. Globalization and Sexuality
Kathryn Farr 610
32. War in the Era of Economic Globalization
Gerald Schneider 630
33. Globalization and International Terrorism
Gus Martin 644
34. Resisting Globalization
Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner 662
35. The Futures of Globalization
Bryan S. Turner 675
Index 693

Rezensionen

"The stimulating essays in this remarkably comprehensivecollection cover important global trends, present intriguingtheoretical perspectives, and take sides in current debates onglobalization. Many illustrate what Ritzer calls the"globophobic" thrust in recent work on the subject.This volume is required reading for serious students ofglobalization."
Frank J. Lechner, Emory University

"This is a thoroughly collated, unique combination ofencyclopaedic surveys of the major controversies that split/unitethe on-going debate on the origins, dynamics and the prospects ofglobalization, with illuminating case studies exploring the diverseimpacts of globalizing pressures on contemporary life in all partsof the planet. An exceptionally useful reference, gathering underone cover texts otherwise difficult to access and seldom consideredtogether."
Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds and University ofWarsaw