Globalization :The Essentials

Publication subTitle :The Essentials

Author: George Ritzer  

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year: 2010

E-ISBN: 9781444393569

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780470655610

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780470655603

Subject: C913 Social Life and Social Problems

Language: ENG

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Description

Essentials of Globalization is a highly useful compact edition of the author's full-scale textbook, Globalization: A Basic Text. The Essentials is written in a style accessible to undergraduates, and draws on both academic and popular sources in its explanations.

  • A highly useful compact version of Globalization: A Basic Text, which contains the all major areas in an accessible and affordable format for undergraduate students
  • Develops a unique perspective on globalization early in the book and uses it throughout to orient and organize discussion of a wide range of topics and parts of the world
  • Integrated use of a wide array of sources, including empirical research, theories, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs, and popular books
  • Designed to work as a basic text in globalization courses, or as a supplementary text in courses that include globalization as one of several topics

Chapter

CHAPTER 3: Structuring the Global Economy

CHAPTER 4: Global Economic Flows

CHAPTER 5: Global Political Structures and Processes

CHAPTER 6: High-Tech Global Flows and Structures: Technology, Media, and the Internet

CHAPTER 7: Global Culture and Cultural Flows

CHAPTER 8: Global Flows of Migrants

CHAPTER 9: Global Environmental Flows

CHAPTER 10: Negative Global Flows and Processes: Dangerous Imports, Diseases, Crime, Terrorism, War

CHAPTER 11: Inequality

CHAPTER 12: Dealing with, Resisting, and the Future of, Globalization

GLOSSARY

INDEX

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