Globalization: A Basic Text - Softcover

Ritzer, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140513271X ISBN 13: 9781405132718

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

The first full-scale textbook of its kind, Globalization provides a balanced introduction to the major topics in globalization studies.

• 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 materials – empirical research, theories, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs, popular books, etc
• Makes extensive use of maps throughout to illustrate key points about globalization
• Includes a glossary of key terms
• Designed to work either on its own or as a package with an accompanying cross-referenced reader constructed around the basic concepts of globalization

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About this title

About the Author

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and his awards include the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He has authored numerous books, including several student textbooks, and is editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007 and continuing online), and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (forthcoming). His books, the best known of which is The McDonaldization of Society (1993; 2008), have been translated into over 20 languages.

From the Back Cover

The first full-scale textbook of its kind, Globalization: A Basic Text provides a balanced introduction to the major topics in globalization studies. Written in a highly accessible style, and drawing on sources both academic and popular, the book adopts a definition of globalization that emphasizes transplanetary flows and the structures that both expedite and impede those flows.

Driven by a range of theories from imperialism and Americanization (and anti-Americanism), to neo-liberalism and the neo-Marxian alternatives, as well the major types of cultural theory, the book examines the key events in the history of globalization, and the principle flows and structures produced in the course of that history. Among the major topics covered are the economy, culture, technology, media and the Internet, migration, the environment, global inequalities, and the future of globalization.

Making extensive use of maps and with a glossary of key terms, this book offers the reader not only a descriptive, but also a critical, analysis of globalization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140513271X
• ISBN 13: 9781405132718
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608