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America transformed : globalization, inequality, and power / Gary Hytrek, Kristine M. Zentgraf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hytrek, Gary J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social stratification--United States.
- Social stratification.
- United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Globalization-the interconnection of the world culturally, socially, politically, and economically-has generated intense theoretical and practical concerns. Is globalization inevitable? What are the effects of globalization on social structures and individual perceptions? What is the effect of globalization on societal level inequality. America Transformed: Globalization, Inequality, and Power examines these questions by analyzing the links among global processes and shifting patterns of stratification, inequality and social mobility in the United States.
- While many texts separate discussions of macro- and micro-level processes when examining globalization, this book skillfully integrates general macro-level processes with specific reference to the micro-level effects of globalization in the U.S. Exploring the critical dimensions of inequality-class, gender, and immigration-America Transformed situates the U.S. experience within the broader global context, and fleshes out the mechanism through which global processes affect social stratification. By examining the social construction of globalization, the authors identify the key policy challenges of globalization, and some of the innovative community-based responses to social inequality. America Transformed provides powerful insights into the contested dialectical relationship between global and local forces: how globalization shapes stratification and inequality in the U.S., and how local communities attempt to mediate those changes.
- Contents:
- Globalization and change in America: overview
- Globalization: the context
- The globalization debate
- The globalization debate: an assessment
- Globalization and stratification
- Globalization and work
- Globalization and immigration
- Globalization and gender
- Globalization: countermovements and community
- How globalization is transforming America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195173015
- 9780195173017
- 0195173007
- 9780195173000
- OCLC:
- 70718756
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