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Subject(s)

• International economic relations—Social aspects [Browse]
• International relations—Social aspects [Browse]
• Cultural relations [Browse]
• International finance—Social aspects [Browse]
• Internationalism [Browse]

Series

Key ideas. [More in this series]

Summary note

• We are surrounded by globalizing developments: the emergence of the global communications industry; the growth of multinational enterprises; the influence of global financial markets; global warming; and international action on human rights. These have brought the idea of a global society into prominence. We now recognise that the constraints of geography are shrinking and that the world is becoming a single place.
• In this crisp and incisive book, Malcolm Waters provides a much needed guide to the concept in social theory and the social, economic and political consequences.
• The first two chapters offer a critical summary of the main theories of globalization, outlining the standard contributions - modernization and convergence, the capitalist world-system, transnationalization and the global village - before moving on to tease out the common threads in the contemporary globalization theories of Robertson, Giddens, Harvey and Beck.
• The succeeding chapters trace the effects of the process through the arenas of economy, politics and culture. Here the book gives a lively treatment to such topics as planetary environmentalism, the new international division of labour, the new world order, growing religious fundamentalism and democratization and marketization. These topics are integrated within a theoretical account that views globalization as the consequence of the new pre-eminence of culture in social life.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. A world of difference
• Ch. 2. What on earth is happening?: precursor theories
• Ch. 3. Brave new worlds: recent theories
• Ch. 4. World-class production: economic globalization
• Ch. 5. Earthly powers: political globalization
• Ch. 6. The new world chaos: cultural globalization
• Ch. 7. The end of the world as we know it.

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ISBN

• 0415105757 (hbk)
• 0415105765 (pbk)

LCCN

94028912

OCLC

30895771

RCP

C - S

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