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A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers. Globalization: The Essentials explores the flows, structures, processes, and consequences of globalization in the modern economic, political, and cultural landscape.
This comprehensive introduction offers balanced coverage of areas such as global economic and cultural flows, environmental sustainability, the impact of technology, and racial, economic, and gender inequality -- providing readers with foundational knowledge of globalization. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition includes expanded coverage of human trafficking and migration, global climate change, fake news and information wars, and transnational social movements with increased emphasis on examples from Central and South America, Africa, and Asia: Offers a straightforward approach to the multiple facets of globalization and their positive and negative influences on contemporary society Employs unique metaphors and a coherent narrative structure to promote intuitive understanding of abstract concepts Introduces cutting-edge research, updated statistics, and real-world examples in areas such as rising global populism, social justice movements, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrencies Provides an efficient and flexible pedagogical structure, allowing integration with instructor’s own course material Emphasizing student comprehension, a wide range of source material is incorporated including empirical research, relevant theories, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular books and monographs.
Examples of current research and recent global developments, such as emerging economies and global health concerns, encourage classroom discussion and promote independent study. Globalization: The Essentials -- a compact edition of the authors’ full-sized textbook Globalization: A Basic Text -- provides concise coverage of the central concepts of this dynamic field. Offering a multidisciplinary approach, this textbook is an invaluable primary or supplemental resource for undergraduate study in any social science field, as well as coursework on economics, migration, inequality and stratification, and politics.
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- Höfundar: George Ritzer, Paul Dean
- Útgáfa:2
- Útgáfudagur: 2018-12-14
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119315254
- Print ISBN: 9781119315209
- ISBN 10: 1119315255
Efnisyfirlit
- COVER
- PREFACE
- ABOUT THE COMPANION WEBSITE
- CHAPTER 1: Globalization
- CONCEPTUALIZING GLOBALIZATION
- ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 2: Theorizing Globalization
- IMPERIALISM
- COLONIALISM
- DEVELOPMENT
- AMERICANIZATION
- NEOLIBERALISM
- NEO‐MARXIAN THEORIES
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 3: Structuring the Global Economy
- BEFORE BRETTON WOODS
- BRETTON WOODS AND THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM
- THE END OF BRETTON WOODS
- CHANGES IN, AND CRITIQUES OF, BRETTON WOODS‐ERA ORGANIZATIONS
- OTHER IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS
- THE ROLE OF EMERGING ECONOMIES
- THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION (MNC)
- THE MYTH OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION?
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 4: Global Economic Flows
- TRADE
- INCREASING COMPETITION FOR COMMODITIES
- THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE FLOW OF OIL
- RACE TO THE BOTTOM AND UPGRADING
- OUTSOURCING
- FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION
- CONSUMPTION
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 5: Global Political Structures and Processes
- ON POLITICAL FLOWS
- THE NATION‐STATE
- IN DEFENSE OF THE NATION‐STATE
- “IMAGINED COMMUNITY”
- CHANGES IN GLOBAL NATION‐STATE RELATIONS
- UNITED NATIONS (UN)
- GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
- CIVIL SOCIETY
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 6: High‐Tech Global Flows and Structures
- TECHNOLOGY, TIME–SPACE COMPRESSION, AND DISTANCIATION
- MASS MEDIA
- THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 7: Global Culture and Cultural Flows
- CULTURAL DIFFERENTIALISM
- CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
- CULTURAL CONVERGENCE
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 8: Global Flows of Migrants
- MIGRANTS
- MIGRATION
- THE CASE AGAINST THE BACKLASH TO UNDOCUMENTED, OR “ILLEGAL,” IMMIGRATION
- REMITTANCES
- DIASPORA
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 9: Global Environmental Flows
- MODERNIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS
- DIFFERENCES AMONG NATION‐STATES
- GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
- OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
- GLOBAL RESPONSES
- COLLAPSE
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 10: Negative Global Flows and Processes
- DANGEROUS IMPORTS
- BORDERLESS DISEASES
- TERRORISM
- WAR
- THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS ON INDIVIDUALS
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 11: Economic Power and Inequality
- CLASS INEQUALITY
- GLOBAL CITIES
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 12: Global Inequalities II
- DEFINING MAJORITY–MINORITY RELATIONS
- RACE AND ETHNICITY
- GENDER
- SEXUALITY
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 13: Dealing with, Resisting, and the Future of Globalization
- DEALING WITH GLOBALIZATION
- RESISTING GLOBALIZATION
- SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- THE FUTURES OF GLOBALIZATION
- CHAPTER SUMMARY
- FURTHER READING
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
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