Globalization / Malcolm Waters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waters, Malcolm, 1946-

Series:

Key ideas.

Key ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic relations--Social aspects.

International economic relations.

International relations--Social aspects.

International relations.

Cultural relations.

International finance--Social aspects.

International finance.

Internationalism.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Taylor and Francis 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are increasingly occupying the centre of sociological debates. Widely discussed by journalists and a key goal for many businesses, globalization has become a buzz-word in recent years. In this extensively revised and restructured new edition of Globalization , Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the main arguments about the process, including a chapter on the critiques of the globalization thesis that have emerged since the first edition was pub

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; A world of difference; Globalizing solvents: the classical accounts; Dimensions of globalization; Multi-dimensional theory; An explanatory theorem; Globalizing developments; Trading places: the international economy; Industrialization and modernization; Convergence; World capitalism; World trade; The international division of labour; Multi-national enterprises; Production systems; Financial management; Migrant labour; Trans-national classes

Main characteristics of an inter-national economyOpen spaces: the globalizing economy; New economies of time and space; Trade; The new international division of labour; Alliances of capital; Cultural economies; Timeless financial markets; A globalized economy?; States of flux: international politics; Development of the nation-state; Trans-national connections; State functions; Conflicts of interest; International organizations; Globalization and the states-system; Wither the state? Globalizing politics; Internal crisis; External sovereignty; New global political actors

A new political cultureConclusion; Clashing civilizations: international cultures; Crusades and Jihads; Revolutions and revivals; Culture contact; Globetrotters and jetsetters; Conclusion; New world chaos: globalizing cultures; Seeing the world as 'one place'; Fragmentation and syncretism; Consumer monarchs; Compunications; Tourism at home; Conclusion; Real world arguments; Not globalization but neo-Fordism; Not the powerless state but the elaborating state; Not postmodernization but Americanization; Conclusion; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Originally published: 1995.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9964-3-0342-4

1-134-55611-X

1-134-55612-8

1-280-40142-7

0-203-13647-0

0-203-17049-0

9780203136478

OCLC:

57017014