ISBN:
9780803983229
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (416 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society, 2 v.v. 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Culture : Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Will the intensification of global contact produce increasing tolerance of other cultures? Or will an integrating culture produce sharper reactions in the form of fundamentalist and nationalist movements? The
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Global Culture: An Introduction; Mapping the Global Condition: Globalization as the Central Concept; Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern WorId-System; Culture and the World-System; Culture is the World-System: A Reply to Boyne; Turning World-System Theory on its Head; Models of the Modern World-System; Theory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society; The Idea of Revolution; Modernity and Ambivalence; Towards a Global Culture?; The Dream of a Secular Ecumene: The Meaning and Limits of Policies of Development; Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Cosmopolitans and Locals in World CultureConflicts of Culture in Cross-border Legal Relations: The Conception of a ResearchTopik in the Sociogy of Law; The Big Bang and the Law: The Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal Field; Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy; Being in the World: Globalization and Localization; AIDS as a Globalizing Panic; The Two Faces of Sociology: Global or National?; The Globalization of Human Society as a Very Long-term Social Process: Elias's Theory; Privatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society
Description / Table of Contents:
Architecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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