By George Ritzer
This better half gains unique essays at the complexity of globalization and its various and infrequently conflicting results. Written by means of most sensible students within the box, it deals a nuanced and exact exam of globalization that incorporates either confident and significant reviews.
- Introduces the key gamers, theories, and methodologies
- Explores the key parts of impression, together with the surroundings, towns, outsourcing, consumerism, international media, politics, faith, and public wellbeing and fitness
- Addresses the most important matters of world inequality, corruption, overseas terrorism, conflict, and the way forward for globalization
- Wide-ranging and entire, an outstanding textual content for undergraduate and graduate scholars in a variety of disciplines
Content:
Chapter 1 Globalization in tough occasions: rivalry within the Academy and past (pages 29–53): Anthony McGrew
Chapter 2 what's Globalization? (pages 54–66): Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White
Chapter three The Cultural development of Neoliberal Globalization (pages 67–83): Robert J. Antonio
Chapter four Globalization: the most important gamers (pages 84–102): George M. Thomas
Chapter five Globalization at the present time (pages 103–124): John Boli and Velina Petrova
Chapter 6 Theories of Globalization (pages 125–143): William I. Robinson
Chapter 7 learning Globalization: Methodological concerns (pages 144–161): Salvatore Babones
Chapter eight Cosmopolitanism: A serious concept for the Twenty?First Century (pages 162–176): Ulrich Beck
Chapter nine the tip of Globalization? the results of Migration for nation, Society and economic climate (pages 201–215): Subhrajit Guhathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi
Chapter 10 Globalization and the Agrarian global (pages 216–238): Philip McMichael
Chapter eleven Globalization and the surroundings (pages 239–253): Steve Yearley
Chapter 12 towns and Globalization (pages 254–271): Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma
Chapter thirteen The Sociology of worldwide corporations (pages 272–290): Stewart Clegg and Chris Carter
Chapter 14 financial Globalization: firms (pages 291–306): Peter Dicken
Chapter 15 Outsourcing: Globalization and past (pages 307–329): George Ritzer and Craig Lair
Chapter sixteen Globalization and buyer tradition (pages 330–351): Douglas J. Goodman
Chapter 17 Cultural Globalization (pages 352–366): John Tomlinson
Chapter 18 Globalization and beliefs (pages 367–382): Manfred B. Steger
Chapter 19 Media and Globalization (pages 383–395): Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce
Chapter 20 Globalization and data and Communications applied sciences: The Case of battle (pages 396–413): Howard Tumber and Frank Webster
Chapter 21 Political Globalization (pages 414–428): Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford
Chapter 22 Globalization and Public coverage (pages 429–443): Tim Blackman
Chapter 23 faith and Globalization (pages 444–460): Peter Beyer
Chapter 24 Globalization and better schooling (pages 461–477): Peter Manicas
Chapter 25 activity and Globalization (pages 478–497): David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger
Chapter 26 The destiny of the neighborhood (pages 498–515): Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada
Chapter 27 Public overall healthiness in a Globalizing global: demanding situations and possibilities (pages 516–538): Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach
Chapter 28 Globalization and international Inequalities: fresh tendencies (pages 549–564): Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling
Chapter 29 international Inequality within the Twenty?First Century: styles and trends (pages 565–592): Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran
Chapter 30 Globalization and Corruption (pages 593–609): Carolyn Warner
Chapter 31 Globalization and Sexuality (pages 610–629): Kathryn Farr
Chapter 32 battle within the period of financial Globalization (pages 630–643): Gerald Schneider
Chapter 33 Globalization and overseas Terrorism (pages 644–661): Gus Martin
Chapter 34 Resisting Globalization (pages 662–674): Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner
Chapter 35 The Futures of Globalization (pages 675–692): Bryan S. Turner
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Thus, his reportage offers much insight into how these leaders view and justify neoliberalism. Friedman’s work is not highly regarded by scholars; it is often seen as ‘trite’ and ‘lightweight’ (although, to be fair, his 2005 book offers, among other things, useful insight into a topic – outsourcing – that scholars have tended to ignore [see Ritzer and Lair, Part II]). Nonetheless, Antonio sees his work as offering ‘what may be the most comprehensive, widely read defence of neoliberal globalization’.
As its title suggests, this view is critical of globalization because it is associated with the extension and transnationalization of power. The best-known idea associated with this perspective is Hardt and Negri’s (2000) ‘empire’. However, this mode goes beyond critique to point to new subjective and transnational forms of resistance to this extension of power (Hardt and Negri’s [2004] ‘multitude’). Agency, subjectivity and social struggle are central to this resistance. The conflict between, for example, empire and multitude is leading to struggles over the distribution of the world’s resources and over recognition and identity (ethnic, gender and so on).
Here a key issue, indeed a central issue in globalization scholarship in general, is what, if anything, is new about globalization today in comparison to other periods in history. There are those who see globalization as beginning with the fall of the Soviet Union, others who trace it to the end of World War II, still others who see its beginnings centuries ago, and even those who argue that globalization can be traced back thousands of years. For those who see globalization today as something unique in history, there is the issue of its general implications, and most specifically its implications for progressive values and projects of human emancipation.
