Uses an innovative conceptual approach to explore the way in which processes of globalization transform and impact upon everyday life. Engaging with a range of theories and concepts, the book provides an accessible discussion of modern issues for students of Globalization and Sociology.
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Uses an innovative conceptual approach to explore the way in which processes of globalization transform and impact upon everyday life. Engaging with a range of theories and concepts, the book provides an accessible discussion of modern issues for students of Globalization and Sociology.
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Introduction: Theorizing Undefined Society
Urban Worlds and Global Cities
Borders, Border Regions and Post-Socialist Transformations
The Workplace in Transition
Consumption: Money and Identity in the Postmodern World
Politics Beyond the State: New Individualities and Solidarities
Nature, Environment, Milieu: Life in Risk Society
Reconstructing the Social.

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Original conceptual approach to globalisation and sociology, using 'hotspots' of social change as accessible example material

Product details

ISBN
9780333971581
Published
2007-10-11
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
299 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Age
Lower undergraduate, UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
208

Biographical note

JÖRG DÜRRSCHMIDT is Lecturer of Sociology at Kassel University, Germany. His previous publications include Everyday Lives in the Global City: The Delinking of Locale and Milieu (2000) and Globalisierung (2002).

GRAHAM TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the University of the West of England, UK. His previous publications include State, Regulation and the Politics of Human Service: The Case of the Water Industry (1999) and Money and the Human Condition (co-authored by Michael Neary) (1998).