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theoretical and methodological approaches
Leading scholars in the field of globalization outline a "research framework" that reflects their own approach to the subject. The book presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization.
Globalization as an historical and a dialectical process / Ino Rossi -- Microglobalization / Karin Knorr Cetina -- A transnational framework for theory and research in the study of globalization / Leslie Sklair -- Global systems, globalization, and anthropological theory / Jonathan Friedman -- The Eigenstructures of world society and the regional cultures of the world / Rudolf Stichweh -- Global complexities / John Urry -- Trajectories of trade and investment globalization / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew Jorgenson -- Globalization and uneven development / Giovanni Arrighi -- Globalization and disintegration: substitutionist technologies and the disintegration of global economic ties / Robert K. Schaeffer -- Social integration, system integration, and global governance / Margaret S. Archer -- Globalization, terrorism, and democracy: 9/11 and its aftermath / Douglas Kellner -- Finding frontiers in historical research on globalization / Raymond Grew -- Theoretical and empirical elements in the study of globalization / Saskia Sassen -- Three steps toward a valuable theory of globalization / James N. Rosenau -- Situating global social relations / Martin Albrow -- Toward a framework for global communication: Durkheim, phenomenology, postmodernism, and the "construction of place and space / Ino Rossi -- "Globalization: in search of a paradigm / Janet Abu-Lughod -- A "new" global age, but are there new perspectives on it? / George Ritzer -- "Globalization" as collective representation: the new dream of a cosmopolitan civil sphere / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Rationalism and globalization in Neo-Weberian perspective / Randall Collins -- From cosmopolitanism to a global perspective: paradigmatic discontinuity (Beck, Ritzer, postmodernism, and Albrow) versus conceptualizations / Ino Rossi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.