Globalization : A Basic Text.

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Author / Creator: Ritzer, George.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • SERIES PAGE
  • TITLE PAGE
  • COPYRIGHT PAGE
  • DEDICATION PAGE
  • ABOUT THE WEBSITE
  • FOR STUDENTS
  • FOR INSTRUCTORS
  • FIGURES
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1: GLOBALIZATION I
  • SOME OF THE BASICS
  • FROM SOLIDS TO LIQUIDS (TO GASES)
  • FLOWS
  • HEAVY, LIGHT, WEIGHTLESS
  • HEAVY STRUCTURES THAT EXPEDITE FLOWS
  • HEAVY STRUCTURES AS BARRIERS TO FLOWS
  • SUBTLER STRUCTURAL BARRIERS
  • ON THE INCREASING UBIQUITY OF GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
  • THINKING ABOUT GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 2: GLOBALIZATION II
  • IS THERE SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION?
  • IS IT GLOBALIZATION OR TRANSNATIONALIZATION?
  • IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION, WHEN DID IT BEGIN?
  • GLOBALIZATION OR GLOBALIZATIONS?
  • WHAT DRIVES GLOBALIZATION?
  • DOES GLOBALIZATION HOP RATHER THAN FLOW?
  • IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS GLOBALIZATION, IS IT INEXORABLE?
  • DOES GLOBAPHILIA OR GLOBAPHOBIA HAVE THE UPPER HAND?
  • WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN BE DONE ABOUT GLOBALIZATION?
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 3: GLOBALIZATION AND RELATED PROCESSES
  • IMPERIALISM
  • COLONIALISM
  • DEVELOPMENT
  • WESTERNIZATION
  • EASTERNIZATION
  • AMERICANIZATION
  • COMPARISONS WITH GLOBALIZATION
  • THE ERA OF THE "POSTS"
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 4: NEOLIBERALISM
  • THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF NEOLIBERALISM
  • NEOLIBERALISM: AN EXEMPLARY STATEMENT AND THE BASIC PRINCIPLES
  • POPULAR NEOLIBERAL "THEORY": THE CASE OF THOMAS FRIEDMAN
  • CRITIQUING NEOLIBERALISM
  • NEOLIBERALISM AS EXCEPTION
  • NEOLIBERALISM: THE CASE OF ISRAEL
  • THE END OF HISTORY
  • THE DEATH OF NEOLIBERALISM?
  • NEO-MARXIAN THEORETICAL ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS.
  • CHAPTER 5: GLOBAL POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
  • ON POLITICAL PROCESSES AND FLOWS
  • THE NATION-STATE
  • IN DEFENSE OF THE NATION-STATE
  • "IMAGINED COMMUNITY"
  • CHANGES IN GLOBAL NATION-STATE RELATIONS
  • OTHER GLOBAL POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND STRUCTURES
  • REGIONAL POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
  • GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
  • CIVIL SOCIETY
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 6: STRUCTURING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
  • BEFORE BRETTON WOODS
  • BRETTON WOODS AND THE BRETTON WOODS SYSTEM
  • THE END OF BRETTON WOODS
  • CHANGES IN, AND CRITIQUES OF, BRETTON-WOODS-ERA ORGANIZATIONS
  • ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)
  • EUROPEAN UNION (COMMON MARKET)
  • NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (NAFTA)
  • MERCOSUR
  • OPEC
  • THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION (MNC)
  • WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
  • THE MYTH OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION?
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 7: GLOBAL ECONOMIC FLOWS
  • TRADE
  • INCREASING COMPETITION FOR COMMODITIES
  • THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE FLOW OF OIL
  • RACE TO THE BOTTOM AND UPGRADING
  • OUTSOURCING
  • FINANCIAL GLOBALIZATION
  • CORPORATIONS, PEOPLE, AND IDEAS
  • CONSUMPTION
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 8: GLOBAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL FLOWS
  • CULTURAL DIFFERENTIALISM
  • CULTURAL HYBRIDIZATION
  • CULTURAL CONVERGENCE
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 9: HIGH-TECH GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES
  • TECHNOLOGY, TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION, AND DISTANCIATION
  • MASS MEDIA
  • THE INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 10: GLOBAL FLOWS OF PEOPLE
  • MIGRANTS
  • MIGRATION
  • HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  • TOURISM
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS.
  • CHAPTER 11: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS
  • Modernization And Environmental FLOWS
  • DIFFERENCES AMONG NATION-STATES
  • GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
  • OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
  • GLOBAL RESPONSES
  • FROM LIGHTNESS TO HEAVINESS IN ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS
  • COLLAPSE
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 12: NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS AND PROCESSES
  • DANGEROUS IMPORTS
  • BORDERLESS DISEASES
  • CRIME
  • TERRORISM
  • WAR
  • THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS ON INDIVIDUALS
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 13: GLOBAL INEQUALITIES ICLASS AND RURAL-URBAN INEQUALITIES
  • CLASS INEQUALITY
  • RURAL-URBAN INEQUALITY
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 14: GLOBAL INEQUALITIES II
  • DEFINING MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS
  • RACE AND ETHNICITY
  • GENDER
  • SEXUALITY
  • RESPONDING TO AND RESISTING GLOBAL MINORITY STATUS: THE CASE OF WOMEN
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • CHAPTER 15: DEALING WITH, RESISTING, AND THE FUTURES OF, GLOBALIZATION
  • DEALING WITH GLOBALIZATION
  • ALTER-GLOBALIZATIONS
  • THE FUTURES OF GLOBALIZATION
  • CHAPTER SUMMARY
  • DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • APPENDIX
  • ANTHROPOLOGY
  • SOCIOLOGY
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • ECONOMICS
  • GEOGRAPHY
  • PSYCHOLOGY
  • LITERARY CRITICISM (POSTCOLONIAL)
  • OTHER FIELDS
  • ADDITIONAL READINGS
  • GLOSSARY
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT.