Globalization and Everyday Life

ISBN-13: 9780415340946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 242 str.

Larry Ray

Opis

Larry Ray explains the meaning and significance of globalization as a concept and discusses the key debates, while pointing towards new ways of understanding the process.

Recenzje

"This book is a positive contruibution to the critical awareness that global citizens need to develop in order to deal intelligently with the difficult issues of our time." Joaquina Pires-O'Brien

"Prof. Ray skillfully lifts and sifts the current academic ideas related to globalization and how it relates to ordinary social agents in everyday life" Joaquina Pires-O'Brien

Spis treści

Introduction: What is Globalization?  1. What’s New About Globalization?  2. Globalization and the Social  3. Beyond the Nation-State?  4. Virtual Sociality  5. Global Inequalities and Everyday Life  6. Global Terrors and Risks.  Conclusions

O autorze

Larry Ray is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent. His research interests include social theory, globalization, postcommunism, race, ethnicity and violence. Recent books include Social Theory and Postcommunism with William Outhwaite (2005) and Theorizing Classical Sociology (1999).