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Globalization: The Making of World Society
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Feb 2009, Pages: 336
Written in a lively and accessible style, Globalization: The Making of World Society shows how globalization affects everyday experience, creates new institutions, and presents new challenges. With many examples, Lechner describes how the process unfolds in a wide range of fields, from sports and media to law and religion. While sketching the outlines of a world society in the making, the book also demonstrates that globalization is inherently diverse and contentious. In this concise analysis of a complex subject, Lechner presents some of the best work in the social sciences in clear and readable fashion. Globalization: The Making of World Society will serve as a stimulating, state-of-the-art text for any student of globalization, beginner or advanced.
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 with a readable style delves into timely, controversial issues and debate impact of migration, global inequality, cultural homogeneity. Combines several perspectives for new interpretation and includes chapter outlines and suggestions for further reading
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