Globalization East and West

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4129-2853-3
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

A wide-ranging, significant contribution.

- Göran Therborn, Cambridge University

"A lively, well-informed, and accessible guide through the dynamics and complexities of globalization."
- Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin

"This is an excellent text on globalisation. It is theoretically sophisticated, critically engaging, and empirically comprehensive. perfect for courses on globalisation within sociology programmes in particular."
- Andrew Kirton, Liverpool University

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

This book examines 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 forword from Roland Robertson, the book is brimming with novel interpretations and fresh insights that will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Turner, Bryan S

Khondker, Habibul

Khondker, Habibul Haque

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Roland Robertson
Introduction: Prospects for a New Sociology of Globalization
Conceptualizing Globalization
Structures and Processes of Globalization
Globalization and the Nation State
Globalization, Culture and Cosmopolitanism
World Religions and Fundamentalism

Migration and Transnationalism
Medical Globalization
New Wars and Terrorism: Globalization of Militarism and Violence
Globalization of Disasters and Disaster Response
Globalization, Citizenship and Human Rights
Multiculturalism, Social Diversity and Globalization
Religion, Media and Popular Culture
Conclusions: Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War?

Über Autor(innen)

Turner, Bryan S
Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.

Khondker, Habibul Haque
Dr Habibul Khondker is Professor in Humanities at Zayed University, Dubai.