Globalization: A Basic Text

✍ Scribed by George Ritzer, Paul Dean

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 553
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies. * Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globalization * Includes an enhanced emphasis on issues relating to global governance, emerging technology, global flows of people, human trafficking, global justice movements, and global environmental sustainability * Utilizes a unique set of metaphors to introduce and explain the highly complex nature of globalization in an engaging and understandable manner * Offers an interdisciplinary approach to globalization by drawing from fields that include sociology, global political economy, political science, international relations, geography, and anthropology * Written by an internationally recognized and experienced author team