Global America?
Subtitle: the cultural consequences of globalization
By: edited by Ulrich Beck, Nathan Sznaider and Rainer Winter.
Contributors: Beck, Ulrich.; Sznaider, Natan, 1954-; Winter, Rainer, 1960-
Series: Studies in social and political thought
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780853239284; 9780853239185
Subjects: Globalization -- Social aspects; Americanization; United States -- Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rooted cosmopolitanism : emerging from a rivalry of distinctions / Ulrich Beck; title: Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and globalization / George Ritzer and Todd Stillman; title: Culture, modernity and immediacy / John Tomlinson; title: Hyperpower exceptionalism : globalization the American way / Jan Nederveen Pieterse; title: Debating Americanization : the case of France / Richard Kuisel; title: Consumption, modernity and Japanese cultural identity : the limits of Americanization? / Gerard Delanty; title: Americanization, Westernization, Sinification : modernization or globalization in China? / Yu Keping; title: Techno-migrants in the network economy / Aihwa Ong; title: The Americanization of memory : the case of the holocaust / Natan Sznaider; title: From the Lisbon disaster to Oprah Winfrey : suffering as identity in the era of globalization / Eva Illouz; title: Global media, cultural change and the transformation of the local : the contribution of cultural studies to a sociology of hybrid formations / Rainer Winter; title: 'Rockization' : diversity within similarity in world popular music / Motti Regev; title: The Internet : an instrument of Americanization? / Rob Kroes; title: Rethinking Americanization / Roland Robertson.