Frontiers of Globalization Research Theoretical and Methodological Approaches /

With updated Postscript For more than twenty years globalization has been a prominent topic in the social sciences and humanities because it deals with processes that impact all societies at the international, national, and local levels. Controversies and conflicting approaches have dominated this f...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rossi, Ino (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Theoretical Perspectives
  • Globalization as an Historical and a Dialectical Process
  • Microglobalization
  • A Transnational Framework for Theory and Research in the Study of Globalization
  • Global Systems, Globalization, and Anthropological Theory
  • The Eigenstructures of World Society and the Regional Cultures of the World
  • Global Complexities
  • Economic and Political Processes
  • Trajectories of Trade and Investment Globalization
  • Globalization and Uneven Development
  • Globalization and Disintegration: Substitutionist Technologies and the Disintegration of Global Econnomic Ties
  • Social Integration, System Integration, and Global Governance
  • Globalization, Terrorism, and Democracy: 9/11 and Its Aftermath
  • Studying Globalization: Methodological Approaches
  • Finding Frontiers in Historical Research on Globalization
  • Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the Study of Globalization
  • Three Steps Toward a Viable Theory of Globalization
  • Situating Global Social Relations
  • Toward a Framework for Global Communication: Durkheim, Phenomenology, Postmodernism, and the “Construction” of Place and Space
  • Commentaries and Discussion
  • “Globalization: In Search of a Paradigm”
  • A “New” Global Age, but Are There New Perspectives on It?
  • “Globalization” as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere
  • Rationalization and Globalization in Neo-Weberian Perspective
  • From Cosmopolitanism to a Global Perspective: Paradigmatic Discontinuity (Beck, Ritzer, Postmodernism, and Albrow) Versus Continuity (Alexander and Collins) and Emergent Conceptualizations (Contributors to This Volume).