Frontiers of globalization research : 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.
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New York :
Springer Science + Business Media,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.