Borderlines in a globalized world : new perspectives in a sociology of the world-system /
Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogen...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic,
[2002]
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| Series: | Social indicators research series ;
volume 9. |
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Table of Contents:
- Borderlines in time of globalization: new theoretical perspectives / Gerhard Preyer and Mathias Bös
- The continental reconstruction of multiple modern civilizations and collective identities / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
- Globalization: a world-systems perspective / Christopher Chase Dunn
- World-systems, frontiers, and ethnogenesis: incorporation and resistance to state expansion / Thomas D. Hall
- After history? The last frontier of historical capitalism / Richard E. Lee.
- (cont.) Globalization and the evolution of membership / Gerhard Preyer
- Enacting globalization-- transnational networks and the deterritorialisation of social relationship / Barrie Axford
- Immigration and the open society: the normative patterns of membership in the nation state / Mathias Bös
- A transformation of national identity? Refugees and German society after World War II / Uta Gerhardt, Birgitta Hohenester.
- (cont.) The collapse of the moral boundaries of peripherial countries / Christie Davies, Eugene Trivizas
- Beyond "East" and "West": on the European and global dimensions of the fall of communism / F. Peter Wagner
- Socioeconomic restructurings of the local settings in the era of globalization / Francisco Entrena.