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Global America? : the cultural consequences of globalization /

Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beck, Ulrich, 1944-2015 (Editor ), Sznaider, Natan, 1954- (Editor ), Winter, Rainer, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Colección:Studies in social and political thought.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rooted cosmopolitanism : emerging from a rivalry of distinctions / Ulrich Beck
  • Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and globalization / George Ritzer and Todd Stillman
  • Culture, modernity and immediacy / John Tomlinson
  • Hyperpower exceptionalism : globalization the American way / Jan Nederveen Pieterse
  • Debating Americanization : the case of France / Richard Kuisel
  • Consumption, modernity and Japanese cultural identity : the limits of Americanization? / Gerard Delanty
  • Americanization, Westernization, Sinification : modernization or globalization in China? / Yu Keping
  • Techno-migrants in the network economy / Aihwa Ong
  • The Americanization of memory : the case of the holocaust / Natan Sznaider
  • From the Lisbon disaster to Oprah Winfrey : suffering as identity in the era of globalization / Eva Illouz
  • Global media, cultural change and the transformation of the local : the contribution of cultural studies to a sociology of hybrid formations / Rainer Winter
  • 'Rockization' : diversity within similarity in world popular music / Motti Regev
  • The Internet : an instrument of Americanization? / Rob Kroes
  • Rethinking Americanization / Roland Robertson.