Globalization
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Globalization

Social Theory and Global Culture

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Globalization

Social Theory and Global Culture

About this book

A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world.

This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global and the local and between the universal and the particular. Its cultural approach emphasizes the political and economic significance of shifting conceptions of, and forms of participation in, an increasingly compressed world. At the same time the book shows why culture has become a globally contested issue - why, for example, competing conceptions of ?world order? have political and economic consequences.

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Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
1992
Print ISBN
9780803981874
9780803981867
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781473914087
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences
GLOBALIZATION 
AND 
THE 
NOSTALGIC 
PARADIGM 
163 
3.
I 
am 
grateful 
to 
Chang 
Wang-Ho 
for 
pointing 
this 
out 
to 
me, 
as 
well 
as 
for 
his 
continuing 
interest 
in 
the 
theme 
of 
globalization. 
4.
I 
have 
in 
Chapter 
4 
tended 
to 
classify 
Meyer 
as 
a 
'world-systems 
revisionist' 
and 
that 
indeed 
has 
been 
one 
of 
his 
roles 
- 
to 
bring 
a 
cultural 
perspective, 
particularly 
a 
political-
cultural 
perspective, 
to 
bear 
on 
Wallersteinian 
world-systems 
theory. 
On 
the 
other 
hand, 
his 
own 
modifications 
of 
world-systems 
theory 
must 
be 
considered 
as 
but 
an 
aspect 
of 
his 
relatively 
autonomous 
Mnstitutionalist' 
theory. 
For 
a 
significant 
application 
of 
the 
latter, 
see 
Thomas 
(1989). 
One 
of 
my 
major 
differences 
with 
the 
'institutionalists,' 
whose 
position 
must 
be 
clearly 
distinguished 
from 
Giddens's 
form 
of 
'institutional 
analysis,' 
inheres 
in 
my 
own 
multidimensional 
attempt 
to 
analyze 
the 
globalization 
process 
as 
such. 
In 
particular, 
I 
insist 
on 
the 
politically
contested
nature 
of 
global, 
or 
world, 
culture, 
as 
well 
as 
the 
increasingly 
structured 
form 
of 
globalization. 

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter 1 - Globalization as a Problem
  6. Chapter 2 - The Cultural Turn
  7. Chapter 3 - Mapping the Global Condition
  8. Chapter 4 - World-Systems Theory, Culture and Images of World Order
  9. Chapter 5 - Japanese Globality and Japanese Religion
  10. Chapter 6 - The Universalism–Particularism Issue
  11. Chapter 7 - 'Civilization,' Civility and the Civilizing Process
  12. Chapter 8 - Globalization Theory and Civilization Analysis
  13. Chapter 9 - Globality, Modernity and the Issue of Postmodernity
  14. Chapter 10 - Globalization and the Nostalgic Paradigm
  15. Chapter 11 - 'The Search for Fundamentals' in Global Perspective
  16. Chapter 12 - Concluding Reflections
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index

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