The Globalization Reader, 5th Edition - Softcover

Lechner

 
9781118733554: The Globalization Reader, 5th Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 111873355X ISBN 13: 9781118733554
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Completely revised and updated, the fifth edition of thiswell-regarded textbook charts key topics and recent research inglobalization along with the latest complexities and controversiesin the field.

Includes a new section on globalization and identity and newreadings on global inequality, mental illness, structural violence,microfinance, blood diamonds, world citizenship, the global justicemovement, and sumo wrestling
Contains essential, thought-provoking readings by prominentscholars, activists, and organizations on the many dimensions ofglobalization, from political and economic issues to cultural andexperiential ones
Examines foundational topics, such as the experience ofglobalization, economic and political globalization, the role ofmedia and religion in cultural globalization, women's rights,environmentalism, global civil society, and the alternativeglobalization movement
Retains the helpful student features from prior editions,including an accessible format, concise introductions to majortopics, stimulating examples, and discussion questions for eachselection and section

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Frank J. Lechner is Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA.  He has published numerous papers on religion and sociological theory. He is the co-author with John Boli of World Culture: Origins and Consequences (Wiley Blackwell, 2005) and author of Globalization: The Making of World Society (2009) and The Netherlands: National Identity and Globalization (2008).

John Boli is Professor of Sociology at Emory University, USA.  He has published extensively on world culture, global organizations, state authority, and education.  He is the co-author with Frank J. Lechner of World Culture: Origins and Consequences (Wiley Blackwell, 2005) and co-author of Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875 (1999), and Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society and the Individual (1987).

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Verlag
Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
111873355X
ISBN 13 
9781118733554
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
5
Anzahl der Seiten
623
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