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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Other Authors: Preyer, Gerhard, Bös, Mathias
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, [2002]
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.