The term expresses a widely shared awareness that the globe as a whole is undergoing major change. This website aims to shed light on the process and contribute to discussions of its consequences. Yet it is a focus of increasingly heated contention about the direction and impact of global change. This site aims to explain its meanings and clarify the debates surrounding it. Globalization has become the subject of a rapidly expanding literature.
Many organizations provide data and resources of interest to students of globalization.
This site aims to serve as a guide to the social scientific literature and other available resources. Background Frank Lechner , Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University, started this site in 2000 and provided most of its content. Teresa Loftin, senior web developer at Tuft University, designed the site. John Boli , Professor of Sociology at Emory, contributed to the content. Some of the materials specifically support Sociology 266, Global Change, a foundation course in the sociology major at Emory that has been taught since 1997.