What Is Globalization?
β Ulrich Beck
π Library
π
2014
π Wiley
π English
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What Is Globalization?
β Scribed by Ulrich Beck
- Publisher
- Polity
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 126
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Virtual taxpayers
The national state caught between world economy and individualization: what is to be done?
The globalization shock: a belated discussion
PART I: Dimensions, Controversies, Definitions
1 The World Horizon Opens Up: On the Sociology of Globalization
Sociology as the power to create intellectual order: the container theory of society
Transnational social spaces
Logics, dimensions and consequences of globalization
2 Transnational Civil Society: How a Cosmopolitan Vision is Emerging
βMethodological nationalismβ and its refutation: a provisional appraisal
Symbolically staged mass boycotts: cosmopolitan initiatives and global subpolitics
Place polygamy: towards globalization in personal life
On the possibility of inter-cultural critique
3 Contours of World Society: Rival Perspectives
Third cultures or global civil society?
Cosmopolitan democracy
Capitalist world society
World risk society: the meltdown of the iron cage of modernity
Global society without democratic politics
Prospects for a transnational state
PART II: Perspectives
4 Errors of Globalism
Metaphysics of the world market
So-called free world trade
Economic internationalization, not globalization
The staging of risk
Absence of politics as revolution
The linearity myth
Critique of catastrophist thinking
Conservative protectionism
Green protectionism
Red protectionism
5 Responses to Globalization
International cooperation
Transnational state or βinclusive sovereigntyβ
Joint ownership of capital
Reorientation of educational policy
Are transnational corporations undemocratic or anti-democratic?
An alliance for civil labour
What comes after the Volkswagen export nation? New cultural, political and economic goals
Experimental cultures, niche markets and the self-renewal of society
Public entrepreneurs, people working for themselves
A social contract against exclusion?
6 Europe and Globalization
Conclusion
Decline Γ la Carte: The Brazilianization of Europe
Further Reading
Notes
Index
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