商品簡介
This collection of over two dozen readings of separately produced essays introduces major areas of interest for understanding globalization sociologically. The first few essays introduce globalization as a phenomenon and situate it in the new millennium. Subsequent sections are organized around culture, economy, and politics. They each are bracketed by an editorial introduction and section on "ancillary materials" that include website links, films, music, and class-room activity suggestions. Specific essays consider globalization as hybridization, fundamentalist Islam against the liberal West, identity politics as a response to globalization, the tension between ending crisis and ending capitalism altogether, global class formation and transnational class, fundamentals of free-trade agreements, Chinese manufacturing in the global context, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and building a global community. The readings are selected from scholarly, journalistic, and theoretical sources. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Keri E. Iyall Smith is an assistant professor of sociology at Suffolk University in Boston. She has published articles on hybridity and world society, human rights, indigenous peoples, and teaching sociology, and she is the former vice-president of Sociologists Without Borders.