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Globalization : East and West / Bryan S. Turner, Habibul Haque Khondker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, Bryan S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- East and West.
- Genre:
- Libros electrónicos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, c2010.
- Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an examination of globalization from the perspective of both the West and the East. The text considers globalization as a general social and economic process, and the challenges it presents for Western social science.
- Contents:
- COVER; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; 1 INTRODUCTION: PROSPECTS FOR A NEW SOCIOLOGY OFGLOBALIZATION; 2 CONCEPTUALIZING GLOBALIZATION; 3 STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES OF GLOBALIZATION; 4 GLOBALIZATION AND THE NATION-STATE; 5 GLOBALIZATION, CULTURE AND COSMOPOLITANISM; 6 WORLD RELIGIONS AND FUNDAMENTALISM; 7 MIGRATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM; 8 MEDICAL GLOBALIZATION; 9 NEW WARS AND TERRORISM: GLOBALIZATION OF MILITARISM AND VIOLENCE; 10 GLOBALIZATION OF DISASTERS AND DISASTER RESPONSE; 11 GLOBALIZATION, CITIZENSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS; 12 MULTICULTURALISM, SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND GLOBALIZATION
- 13 RELIGION, MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE14 CONCLUSION: PERPETUAL PEACE OR PERPETUAL WAR?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612623660
- 9781412928526
- 1412928524
- 9781446242858
- 1446242854
- 9781282623668
- 1282623664
- 9780857026705
- 0857026704
- OCLC:
- 638860708
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