Frontiers of globalization research : theoretical and methodological approaches / Ino Rossi, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rossi, Ino

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Globalization--Research.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Globalization--Economic aspects.

Culture and globalization.

International relations--21st century.

International relations.

Research.

Physical Description:

x, 451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Science + Business Media, 2007.

Summary:

Leading scholars in the field of globalization outline a "research framework" that reflects their own approach to the subject. The book presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization.

Contents:

Globalization as an historical and a dialectical process / Ino Rossi

Microglobalization / Karin Knorr Cetina

A transnational framework for theory and research in the study of globalization / Leslie Sklair

Global systems, globalization, and anthropological theory / Jonathan Friedman

The Eigenstructures of world society and the regional cultures of the world / Rudolf Stichweh

Global complexities / John Urry

Trajectories of trade and investment globalization / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew Jorgenson

Globalization and uneven development / Giovanni Arrighi

Globalization and disintegration: substitutionist technologies and the disintegration of global economic ties / Robert K. Schaeffer

Social integration, system integration, and global governance / Margaret S. Archer

Globalization, terrorism, and democracy: 9/11 and its aftermath / Douglas Kellner

Finding frontiers in historical research on globalization / Raymond Grew

Theoretical and empirical elements in the study of globalization / Saskia Sassen

Three steps toward a valuable theory of globalization / James N. Rosenau

Situating global social relations / Martin Albrow

Toward a framework for global communication: Durkheim, phenomenology, postmodernism, and the "construction of place and space / Ino Rossi

"Globalization: in search of a paradigm / Janet Abu-Lughod

A "new" global age, but are there new perspectives on it? / George Ritzer

"Globalization" as collective representation: the new dream of a cosmopolitan civil sphere / Jeffrey C. Alexander

Rationalism and globalization in Neo-Weberian perspective / Randall Collins

From cosmopolitanism to a global perspective: paradigmatic discontinuity (Beck, Ritzer, postmodernism, and Albrow) versus conceptualizations / Ino Rossi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0387335951

9780387335957

038733596X

9780387335964

OCLC:

123897647