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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1992
ISBN
0803981864, 9780803981867, 9780585343600
LCC
HM101 .R54 1992
Open Library ID
OL1743197M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
498 kB (509875 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

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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