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Globalization: East and West
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Artikel-Nr:
9781412928526
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.05.2010
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Bryan S Turner
Gewicht:
499 g
Format:
234x157x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals.
"A wide-ranging, significant contribution." Göran Therborn, Cambridge University"A lively, well-informed, and accessible guide through the dynamics and complexities of globalization." Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin"This is an excellent text on globalisation. It is theoretically sophisticated, critically engaging, and empirically comprehensive... perfect for courses on globalisation within sociology programmes in particular." Andrew Kirton, Liverpool University
Foreword by Roland RobertsonIntroduction: Prospects for a New Sociology of GlobalizationConceptualizing GlobalizationStructures and Processes of GlobalizationGlobalization and the Nation StateGlobalization, Culture and CosmopolitanismWorld Religions and Fundamentalism Migration and TransnationalismMedical GlobalizationNew Wars and Terrorism: Globalization of Militarism and ViolenceGlobalization of Disasters and Disaster ResponseGlobalization, Citizenship and Human RightsMulticulturalism, Social Diversity and GlobalizationReligion, Media and Popular CultureConclusions: Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War?