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Lechner / Boli

The Globalization Reader

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-470-65563-4
Verlag: Wiley
Erscheinungstermin: 02.09.2011
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Thoroughly revised and updated, The Globalization Reader, Fourth Edition offers a provocative assessment of globalization by reviewing the current debates and ongoing research on the topic, providing readers with the most comprehensive introduction to globalization available today.
* Fully revised and updated with new readings on global governance, world soccer, the recent global financial crisis, global health, American evangelicals, and tropical deforestation
* Includes coverage on economic globalization, the role of media and religion in cultural globalization, and the link between environmentalism and the globalization of social problems
* Features coverage that ranges across economic, political, cultural, and experiential dimensions of social change
* Offers a wide variety of perspectives on globalization and captures many of the fault lines in current debates
* Stimulates discussion by including provocative contemporary works and by structuring sections around arguments that serve as connecting themes


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780470655634
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-470-65563-4
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Erscheinungstermin: 02.09.2011
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 4. Auflage 2011
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 666 g
  • Seiten: 584
  • Format (B x H x T): 172 x 246 x 28 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
  • Vorauflage: 978-1-4051-5553-3
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Frank J. Lechner is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. In addition to publishing numerous papers on religion and sociological theory, Lechner is the author of Globalization: The Making of World Society (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), The Netherlands: National Identity and Globalization (2008), and World Culture: Origins and Consequences (with John Boli, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005).

John Boli is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published extensively on global culture and organizations, education, and state authority. His books include World Culture: Origins and Consequences (with Frank J. Lechner, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), New Citizens for a New Society (1989), and Constructing World Culture (edited with George M. Thomas, 1999).

Sources and Acknowledgments

Preface to the Fourth Edition

General Introduction

Part I: Debating Globalization

Part II: Explaining Globalization

Part III: Experiencing Globalization

Part IV: Globalization and the World Economy

Part V: Globalization and the Nation-State

Part VI: Global Governance

Part VII: Globalization, INGOs, and Civil Society

Part VIII: Globalization and Media

Part IX: Globalization and Religions

Part X: Global Environmentalism

Part XI: Alternative Globalization and the Global Justice Movement