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Globalization East and West.
Do we confuse globalization for Americanization? What are the distinctive elements in the interplay of the local and the global?This much needed book is the first full length text to examine globalization from the perspective of both the West and the East. It considers globalization as a general soc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Sage Publications,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; acknowledgements; foreword; 1 introduction: prospects for a new sociology ofglobalization; 2 conceptualizing globalization; 3 structures and processes of globalization; 4 globalization and the nation-state; 5 globalization, culture and cosmopolitanism; 6 world religions and fundamentalism; 7 migration and transnationalism; 8 medical globalization; 9 new wars and terrorism: globalization of militarism and violence; 10 globalization of disasters and disaster response; 11 globalization, citizenship and human rights; 12 multiculturalism, social diversity and globalization.
- 13 religion, media and popular culture14 conclusion: perpetual peace or perpetual war?; bibliography; index.