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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rossi, Ino
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Science + Business Media, 2007.
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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.