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Globalization East and West Bryan S Turner

Globalization East and West By Bryan S Turner

Globalization East and West by Bryan S Turner

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An engaging, and refreshingly international analysis of globalisation from two of the world's leading figures in the field.

Globalization East and West Summary

Globalization East and West by Bryan S Turner

A wide-ranging, significant contribution.
- Goeran Therborn, Cambridge University

A lively, well-informed, and accessible guide through the dynamics and complexities of globalization.
- Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin

This is an excellent text on globalisation. It is theoretically sophisticated, critically engaging, and empirically comprehensive... perfect for courses on globalisation within sociology programmes in particular.
- Andrew Kirton, Liverpool University

Do we confuse globalization for Americanization? What are the distinctive elements in the interplay of the local and the global?

This book examines globalization from the perspective of both the West and the East. It considers globalization as a general social and economic process, and the challenges it presents for Western social science.

The meaning of a global perspective is explored through various concrete examples: religion, migration, medicine, terrorism, global disasters, citizenship, multiculturalism, media and popular culture.

Introduced with a forword from Roland Robertson, the book is brimming with novel interpretations and fresh insights that will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of globalization.

Globalization East and West Reviews

A wide-ranging, significant contribution
Goeran Therborn
Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University

According to Turner and Khondker, globalization is an all-encompassing process by which humanity has entered a qualitatively distinct civilizational stage. Their [this] book offers a comprehensive, systematic and powerful account of the new world we are facing and will serve as an essential basis for scholarly innovations urgently required in all social sciences. This is a highly revealing yet balanced analysis of globalization that will intellectually enrich both academic and general readers
Professor Chang Kyung-Sup
Seoul National University

A lively, well-informed, and accessible guide through the dynamics and complexities of globalization. This volume shows why sociology rather than economics offers more powerful and far more subtle ways of understanding global trends and global crises
Robert Holton
Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin

Challenges the idea that globalisation is the same as Westernisation, imperialism or Americanisation. The direction of global processes is always changing, but crucially this is not a one-way street. Far too little attention has been paid to the fact that the influence of Asian culture on the West is at least as great as, if not more so, in the first decade of the 21st century as that of the West on the East
Ken Smith, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Bucks New University
Times Higher Education (THE)

About Bryan S Turner

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals. Dr Habibul Khondker is Professor in Humanities at Zayed University, Dubai.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Roland Robertson Introduction: Prospects for a New Sociology of Globalization Conceptualizing Globalization Structures and Processes of Globalization Globalization and the Nation State Globalization, Culture and Cosmopolitanism World Religions and Fundamentalism Migration and Transnationalism Medical Globalization New Wars and Terrorism: Globalization of Militarism and Violence Globalization of Disasters and Disaster Response Globalization, Citizenship and Human Rights Multiculturalism, Social Diversity and Globalization Religion, Media and Popular Culture Conclusions: Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War?

Additional information

GOR013338146
9781412928533
1412928532
Globalization East and West by Bryan S Turner
Bryan S Turner
Used - Like New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
2010-03-25
256
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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