Isbn: 9781402005152 - borderlines in a globalized world: new perspectives in a sociology of the world-system (social indicators research series, band 9) (5 Ergebnisse)

1st edn. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (VG), no dustwrapper issued. Pp. xviii + 239 (no inscriptions).

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. It is a metaphor for different border structures. This book employs concepts, strategies of research, and explanations, in order to understand these contemporary developments. Editor(s): Preyer, Gerhard; Bos, Mathias (Institut fur Soziologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universit t Heidelberg, Germany). Series: Social Indicators Research Series. Num Pages: 241 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1210. . 2002. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization. Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all s.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide. …