Globalization / Malcolm Waters
- Bib ID:
- 2100250
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Waters, Malcolm, 1946-
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 1995
- xiv, 185 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0415105757 (hardback)
- 0415105765 (paperback)
- Series:
- Key ideas.
- Summary:
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"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."--BOOK JACKET. "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."--BOOK JACKET.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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