Description
| Product ID: | 9780803981874 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Title: | Globalization |
| Subtitle: | Social Theory and Global Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Roland Robertson |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Cultural studies, Cultural studies, Anthropology, Anthropology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents a multidimensional, complex approach to sociological theory that focuses on culture. This title develops the theme of globalization in relation to the cultural turn, world-systems theory, the civilizing process, modernity and postmodernity, nostalgia politics and fundamentalism. A stimulating appraisal of a crucial contemporary theme, this comprehensive analysis of globalizaton offers a distinctively cultural perspective on the social theory of the contemporary world. This perspective considers the world as a whole, going beyond conventional distinctions between the global and the local and between the universal and the particular. Its cultural approach emphasizes the political and economic significance of shifting conceptions of, and forms of participation in, an increasingly compressed world. At the same time the book shows why culture has become a globally contested issue - why, for example, competing conceptions of ''world order'' have political and economic consequences. |
| Imprint Name: | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1992-07-27 |
