Globalisation, Modernity and Social Change: Hotspots of Transition

ISBN-13: 9780333971574 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str.

Graham Taylor

Opis

Uses an innovative conceptual approach to explore the way in which processes of globalization transform and impact upon everyday life. Engaging with a range of theories and concepts, the book provides an accessible discussion of modern issues for students of Globalization and Sociology.

Spis treści

Introduction: Theorizing Undefined Society.- Urban Worlds and Global Cities.- Borders, Border Regions and Post-Socialist Transformations.- The Workplace in Transition.- Consumption: Money and Identity in the Postmodern World.- Politics Beyond the State: New Individualities and Solidarities.- Nature, Environment, Milieu: Life in Risk Society.- Reconstructing the Social.

O autorze

JÖRG DÜRRSCHMIDT is Lecturer of Sociology at Kassel University, Germany. His previous publications include Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of Locale and Milieu (2000) and Globalisierung (2002).

GRAHAM TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK. His previous publications include State, Regulation and the Politics of Human Service: The Case of the Water Industry (1999) and Money and the Human Condition (co-authored by Michael Neary) (1998).