Borderlines in a Globalized World: New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System

Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading 'globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402005156
• ISBN13: 9781402005152
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"