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What Is Globalization?


What Is Globalization?


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von: Ulrich Beck

18,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 08.10.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9780745694344
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 192

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This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.
Foreword. <p>Introduction.</p> <p>Vitual Tax-Payers.</p> <p>The National State Caught between World Economy and Individualization: What is to be Done?.</p> <p>The Globalization Shock: A Belated Discussion.</p> <p><b>Part I: Dimensions, Controversies, Definitions:</b> .</p> <p>1. The World Horizon Opens Up: On the Sociology of Globalization.</p> <p>2. Transnational Civil Society: How a Cosmopolitan Vision is Emerging.</p> <p>3. Contours of World Society: Rival Perspectives.</p> <p><b>Part II: Perspectives:</b>.</p> <p>4. Errors of Globalism.</p> <p>5. Responses to Globalization.</p> <p>6. Europe and Globalization.</p> <p>Conclusion: Decline a la Carte: The Brazilianization of Europe.</p> <p>Further Reading.</p> <p>Index.</p>
'The primary virtue of Beck's book lies in its helpful and comprehensive mapping of the various contours of the broad debates about globalization ... As would be expected from a sociologist of the stature of Beck, this is a fascinating , eclectic book where an illuminating empirical example is never very far away.' <i>Democractization</i><br /> <p>'This introduction to the thorny path of the globalization debate aims to clarify the ambiguities of the debate, distinguish between the various types of globalization, and warn the reader of conceptual traps.' <i>Business Horizons</i></p>
<b>Ulrich Beck</b> is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.
This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. Beck aims to clarify the ambiguities of the debate, to distinguish between the various types of globalization and to warn the reader of conceptual traps. Most importantly, however, he opens up the horizon for political responses to globalization. <p><br /> Beck focuses on two main questions: what does globalization mean? and how can it be moulded politically? He begins by examining the ambivalences and paradoxes of globality and globalization, with regard to society, economics, politics, ecology and culture. He sets out the rival perspectives in the globalization debate and assesses the prospects for a transnational state. Central to the book is Beck's argument that a decisive critique of globalism is necessary to make space for the primacy of politics. In the last section, he offers a series of constructive proposals to counter the current paralysis of politics, suggesting ten ways of addressing and answering the challenges of the global age. The book concludes by conjecturing that if our politicians do not respond creatively to the challenge, we will experience what Beck calls 'the Brazilianization of Europe'.</p> <p><br /> This book will be an important text for students and scholars in politics, sociology, geography and the social sciences generally. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in key social and political issues in the world today.</p>

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