Sociology of Globalization, Paperback

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globaliz...

Theorizing Globalization offers a reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, providing essential insights into an enormously popular...

The Globalization of Wine is a one-stop guide to understanding wine across the world today. Examining a broad range of developments in the wine wor...

Reducere. This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in Ch...

This book is the first comprehensive study of the varyingresponses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as asport and as ...

Reducere. This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggl...

Offers a collection of articles and chapters that reflects the trends in the field of Sociology of Education. Focusing on the major issues confront...

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Sociology Book takes on some of humankind's biggest questions: What is society? What makes it tick? Why do we interact in the way th...

DescriptionThis classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent ...

Migration is a politically sensitive topic and an important aspect of contentious debates about social and cultural diversity, economic stability, ...

DescriptionCities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widesp...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this critical new work, sociologist William I. Robinson offers an engaging and accessible introduction to his theory of global capita...

What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? Niklas Luhmann addressed these questions in depth. This boo...

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https: //www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351234146, has been made available under a Creative Com...

In Ethnicity and Nationalism, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and s...

DescriptionThe disruptive power of montage has often been regarded as a threat to scholarly representations of the social world. This volume assert...

Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the ecological perspective of medical anthropology more importan...

Reducere. DescriptionDistinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military, and political - this series traces their interrelations througho...

Pilger tackles the injustices and double standards inherent in the politics of globalization and exposes the terrible truth behind the power and we...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aihwa OngIntroduction by: Carla FreemanIn the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capital...

In this clear and concise volume, author David Chandler provides a timely overview of Cambodia, a small but increasingly visible Southeast Asian na...

The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work --...

Reducere. DescriptionMexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same t...

Contemporary fiction is a wide and diverse field, now global in dimension, with an enormous range of novels and writers that continues to grow at a...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe U.S. military continues to be an overt presence in the Philippines, and a reminder of the country's colonial past. Using Subic Bay (...