Research handbook on the sociology of globalization / edited by Christian Karner (Professor of Sociology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK) and Dirk Hofäcker (Professor of Quantitative Research Methods, Institute for Social Work and Social Policy, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karner, Christian, editor.

Hofäcker, Dirk, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in sociology

Research handbooks in sociology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"Talk about globalization is all around us. It is far rarer that suitable definitions of what globalization is, and accounts of the many ways in which global connections and interdependencies affect and shape us, are provided. This is precisely what this Research Handbook offers: sociological conceptualizations of what globalization entails; interdisciplinary approaches to its many dimensions; critical analyses of today's complex interplays of the global, the local and the political; up-to-date empirical accounts of the effects of globalization on life courses in contemporary societies and cutting-edge discussions of the historical, methodological and ethical questions our global interconnections present for the social sciences. This Research Handbook takes stock of the state of the art in sociological research on globalization and the contributors outline future trajectories for this, one of the most pressing and challenging sociological themes of our time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: The sociology of globalization / Christian Karner and Dirk Hofäcker

Part I. History/sociology

1. When did globalization start? / Zinovia Lialiouti

2. Methodological dilemmas or promises? The sociological imagination and globalization / Magali Peyrefitte

Part II. (infra)structural parameters

3. Work and employment in a globalizing age / David Pick

4. Global commodity circuits / Craig Martin and Giovanni Marmont

5. Global networks and hybrid cities / Kristian Kloeckl

6. Global risks / Jean-Christophe Le Coze

7. Global waste / Zsuzsa Gille

Part III. Flows and frictions

8. Globalization and forced migration / Inka Stock

9. Global tourism / Esther Bott

10. Globalization as an extension of the triple movement: Care workers' struggles for emancipation / Bernhard Weicht

11. Human rights as ends or means of a global moral horizon / José Julián López

12. Memory for the global age / Marcin Napiórkowski

13. The globalization of religion as a multilayered phenomenon / Ugo Dessì

14. The gendered dynamics of migration deterrence and anti-trafficking interventions: The case of nigerian sex workers in kumasi, Ghana / Sam Okyere

15. Glocalized subjectivities: Egyptian female identities / Amal Treacher Kabesh

16. The American guitar in the global market: Worldwide flows of people, commodities and symbols / Frédéric Moulène

Part IV. Politics

17. Globalization: Opportunity or threat to the European Union? / Robert Kissack

18. Cosmopolitans versus communitarians? Or something altogether more nuanced? / Christian Karner

19. Alternative globalization / Luke Martell

20. The rise of racism and antisemitism in the age of globalization / Gerald J. Steinacher

21. The globalization of extremism: An odd paradox / Joshua Skoczylis and Matthew Leavesley

22. From multiculturalism to superdiversity and (in)hospitality? Shifting policy responses to global migratory flows in the uk / Sureyya Sonmez Efe

Part V. Globalization and the life course

23. Globalization, uncertainty and changing life courses in modern societies / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld

24. Does a higher minimum salary protect youth from in-work poverty? Cross-national evidence from the eu / Kadri Täht, Marge Unt and Thomas Biegert

25. Globalization and the transition from education to employment in the mena region / Michael Gebel

26. Reimagining globalization through a gender lens / Esuna Dugarova

27. Pension governance in a globalizing world / Bernhard Ebbinghaus

28. Globalization and the transition from work to retirement / Dirk Hofäcker, Stefanie König and Moritz Heß

Part VI. Methodological and conceptual lessons, emerging questions

29. Global - and local - commodity circuits / Dawn Lyon

30. Travelling methods / Caroline Knowles

Epilogue / Christian Karner and Dirk Hofäcker

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781839101571 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.