Globalization: The Essentials - Softcover

Ritzer, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470655615 ISBN 13: 9780470655610

Publisher: Blackwell Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Essentials of Globalization is a highly useful compact edition of the author's full-scale textbook, Globalization: A Basic Text. The Essentials is written in a style accessible to undergraduates, and draws on both academic and popular sources in its explanations.

• A highly useful compact version of Globalization: A Basic Text, which contains the all major areas in an accessible and affordable format for undergraduate students
• Develops a unique perspective on globalization early in the book and uses it throughout to orient and organize discussion of a wide range of topics and parts of the world
• Integrated use of a wide array of sources, including empirical research, theories, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs, and popular books
• Designed to work as a basic text in globalization courses, or as a supplementary text in courses that include globalization as one of several topics

About this title

About the Author

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, with awards that include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous books including The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 2011), The Globalization of Nothing (2003, 2007) Globalization: A Basic Text (2010) and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007) and the forthcoming The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. His work has been translated into over 20 languages.

From the Back Cover

This compact alternative to Ritzer's Globalization: A Basic Text (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) draws on material from the larger volume and presents a more concise, yet still comprehensive, introduction to the major topics in globalization studies. Making use of both academic and popular sources, the book examines the key events in the history of globalization, and the principle flows and structures it has produced. It pinpoints the big questions and maps out alternative futures, whilst covering a range of theories from imperialism and Americanization, to neo-liberalism and the neo-Marxian alternatives.

This wide-ranging and engaging introduction provides an indispensable textbook for undergraduate courses and can be used independently or alongside a reader, such as Ritzer and Atalay, Readings in Globalization (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470655615
• ISBN 13: 9780470655610
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356