Globalization and World Society / Edition 1

by Tony Spybey

Overview

This book provides an accessible overview of the processes associated with globalization, examining the various institutions which emerged from these processes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745611594
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	01/23/1996
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Tony Spybey has previously worked at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and was a Visiting Professor at the Copenhagen School of Economics, and at the University of Uppsala in Sweden.

Table of Contents

List of tables.

Preface.

Introduction.

1. The European Global View.

2. Mass Society and the American Dream.

3. The Citzen and the Nation-State System.

4. The Producer-Consumer in the Global Economy.

5. The Viewer in the Global Communication System.

6. The Soldier in the World Order.

7. Global Social Movements.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"This multidimensional historical-sociological analysis of globalization offers an enjoyable read. I liked this book very much ... Spybey offers a sweeping yet careful analysis. Unlike many works on globalization, this contribution is rich in empirical substantiation. Throughout, Spybey writes in an engaging and refreshingly unpretentious manner ... it will help students develop an acute sense of their lives as reflexive global agents. This reviewer, too, was left with a satisfying sense of having learned something." International Affairs

"This book will be welcomed by those who are sympathetic to the idea of globalization but have found most accounts of it excessively stucturalist and abstract." British Journal of Sociology

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