< P> < P> < EM> The Netherlands< /EM> will be the first concise, authored introduction available on the topic. The Netherlands has been a key entrepot in the world capitalist system for centuries, but because of relatively recent demographic changes, it has become symbolic of the clash of European and Islamic cultures. Perhaps the most secular nation in the world, it now houses a very large Islamic population. That population is the fruit of globalization, and how the Dutch have responded to this broad cultural shift tells us a great deal about the changing nature of...

This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture, including the world polity approach and globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs.

• Traces world culture back from the...

Modernity dissolves absolute certainties; late modernity dissolves them absolutely. In the modern world system there appears to be no firm, unchallenged ground on which to construct a meaningful canopy. But around the world, many individuals and groups long for a kind of cultural coherence that they believe once existed. They search for fundamentals. While these may be sought in religious traditions, many also aspire to new secular certainties. In their various new forms and contexts the contemporary quests for meaning in turn transform the societies in which they occur. The rich comparative...

This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture, including the world polity approach and globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs.

• Traces world culture back from the...

Globalization: The Making of World Society is a stimulating, state-of-the-art text for any student of globalization, beginner or advanced.

• Makes a big, abstract topic very accessible through illustration with everyday experience
• Thorough and scholarly but written in an approachable style
• Delves into timely and controversial issues and debates, including the impact of migration, global inequality, and cultural homogeneity
• Combines several perspectives for new interpretation
• Includes chapter outlines and suggestions for further...

Globalization: The Making of World Society is a stimulating, state-of-the-art text for any student of globalization, beginner or advanced.

• Makes a big, abstract topic very accessible through illustration with everyday experience
• Thorough and scholarly but written in an approachable style
• Delves into timely and controversial issues and debates, including the impact of migration, global inequality, and cultural homogeneity
• Combines several perspectives for new interpretation
• Includes chapter outlines and suggestions for further...