Brings together the key texts on the most pressing and pervasive issue of our times. The Reader opens with a broad introduction to the history of globalization and the major contemporary debates, concepts and theorists. The main body of the book comprises over 100 extract's from the world's leading commentators.

Globalization Reader

Politics & Social Sciences

LeChner, Frank J.

Boli, John

Social Sciences

Blackwell*publishers

World Culture: Origins and Consequences

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. 
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<li>Traces world culture back from the mid-19th century to the present day</li> <li>Includes numerous illustrations of key issues and empirical research</li> <li>Written in lively, accessible language for the student and general scholar</li> </ul>

History

World

Wiley/Blackwell

The authors show how the cultural values underlying the ideology of Western society have determined the structure and authority of the modern nation-state. This Western culture also suggests the form of various social institutions, legitimizes and limits the development of social movements, and provides for the place of the individual in society.

Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society and the Individual

Thomas, George M.

Meyer, John W.

Ramirez, Francisco O.

Sage Publications, Inc.

An in-depth look at the growth of the yuppie from the perspective of the anti-idealistic and cynical attitudes of their college years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A revealing glimpse into the "blank generation" student of the early Bret Easton Ellis era.

Careerism and Intellectualism Among College Students (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series)

Education & Teaching

Katchadourian, Herant A.

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

Exploring Social Issues: Using Spss for Windows

Healey, Joseph F.

Babbie, Earl R.

Halley, Fred

Sociology

Pine Forge Pr

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