Global Culture
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Global Culture

Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Global Culture

Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity

About this book

In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Will the intensification of global contact produce increasing tolerance of other cultures? Or will an integrating culture produce sharper reactions in the form of fundamentalist and nationalist movements?

The contributors explore the emergence of `third cultures?, such as international law, the financial markets and media conglomerates, as elements which transcend the boundaries of the nation state. As well as examining the extent, causation and consequences of global homogenization, the authors consider its implication for the social sciences.

Global Culture was published simultaneously as Volume 7, issues 2-3 of Theory, Culture & Society.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Global Culture: An Introduction
  4. Mapping the Global Condition: Globalization as the Central Concept
  5. Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern WorId-System
  6. Culture and the World-System
  7. Culture is the World-System: A Reply to Boyne
  8. Turning World-System Theory on its Head
  9. Models of the Modern World-System
  10. Theory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society
  11. The Idea of Revolution
  12. Modernity and Ambivalence
  13. Towards a Global Culture?
  14. The Dream of a Secular Ecumene: The Meaning and Limits of Policies of Development
  15. Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity
  16. Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture
  17. Conflicts of Culture in Cross-border Legal Relations: The Conception of a ResearchTopik in the Sociogy of Law
  18. The Big Bang and the Law: The Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal Field
  19. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
  20. Being in the World: Globalization and Localization
  21. AIDS as a Globalizing Panic
  22. The Two Faces of Sociology: Global or National?
  23. The Globalization of Human Society as a Very Long-term Social Process: Elias's Theory
  24. Privatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society
  25. Architecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture