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9780745621265

What Is Globalization?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780745621265

  • ISBN10:

    0745621260

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-02-03
  • Publisher: Polity

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Summary

This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.

Author Biography

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Vitual Tax-Payers
The National State Caught between World Economy and Individualization: What is to be Done?
The Globalization Shock: A Belated Discussion
Dimensions, Controversies, Definitions
The World Horizon Opens Up: On the Sociology of Globalization
Transnational Civil Society: How a Cosmopolitan Vision is Emerging
Contours of World Society: Rival Perspectives
Perspectives
Errors of Globalism
Responses to Globalization
Europe and Globalization
Conclusion: Decline a la Carte: The Brazilianization of Europe
Further Reading
Index
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