Frontiers of globalization research
Subtitle: theoretical and methodological approaches
By: Ino Rossi, editor.
Contributors: Rossi, Ino.
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media; Springer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780387335957; 9780387335964
Subjects: Globalization
Description: Leading scholars in the field of globalization outline a "research framework" that reflects their own approach to the subject. The book presents a broad spectrum of analytical approaches to globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization as an historical and a dialectical process / Ino Rossi; title: Microglobalization / Karin Knorr Cetina; title: A transnational framework for theory and research in the study of globalization / Leslie Sklair; title: Global systems, globalization, and anthropological theory / Jonathan Friedman; title: The Eigenstructures of world society and the regional cultures of the world / Rudolf Stichweh; title: Global complexities / John Urry; title: Trajectories of trade and investment globalization / Christopher Chase-Dunn and Andrew Jorgenson; title: Globalization and uneven development / Giovanni Arrighi; title: Globalization and disintegration: substitutionist technologies and the disintegration of global economic ties / Robert K. Schaeffer; title: Social integration, system integration, and global governance / Margaret S. Archer; title: Globalization, terrorism, and democracy: 9/11 and its aftermath / Douglas Kellner; title: Finding frontiers in historical research on globalization / Raymond Grew; title: Theoretical and empirical elements in the study of globalization / Saskia Sassen; title: Three steps toward a valuable theory of globalization / James N. Rosenau; title: Situating global social relations / Martin Albrow; title: Toward a framework for global communication: Durkheim, phenomenology, postmodernism, and the "construction of place and space / Ino Rossi; title: "Globalization: in search of a paradigm / Janet Abu-Lughod; title: A "new" global age, but are there new perspectives on it? / George Ritzer; title: "Globalization" as collective representation: the new dream of a cosmopolitan civil sphere / Jeffrey C. Alexander; title: Rationalism and globalization in Neo-Weberian perspective / Randall Collins; title: From cosmopolitanism to a global perspective: paradigmatic discontinuity (Beck, Ritzer, postmodernism, and Albrow) versus conceptualizations / Ino Rossi.