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Klappentext In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Zusammenfassung In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Global Culture(s) - Mike Featherstone An Introduction Mapping the Global Condition - Roland Robertson Culture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein Culture and the World-System - Roy Boyne Culture as the World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein A Reply to Roy Boyne Turning World-Systems Theory on its Head - Alberg Bergesen Models of the Modern World-System - Peter Worsley Theory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society - Margaret Archer The Idea of Revolution - Alain Touraine Modernity and Ambivalence - Zygmunt Bauman Towards a Global Culture? - Anthony D Smith The Dream of a Secular Ecumene - Friedrich H Tenbruck The Meaning and Limits of Policies of Development Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity - Johann Arnason Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture - Ulf Hannerz Conflicts of Culture in Cross-Border Legal Relations - Volkmar Gessner and Angelike Schade A Research Topic in the Sociology of Law The Big Bang and the Law - Yves Dezalay The Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal Field Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun Appadurai Being in the World - Jonathan Friedman Globalization and Localization AIDS as a Globalizing Panic - John O¿Neill The Two Faces of Sociology - Bryan S Turner Global or National? Norbert Elias¿s Theory of Humanity as a Very Long-Term Social Process - Stephen Mennell Privatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society - Peter Beyer Architecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture - Anthony King ...
