What Is Globalization? / Edition 1

by Ulrich Beck

Overview

This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745621258
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	02/03/2000
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.87(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.

Table of Contents

Foreword.

Introduction.

Vitual Tax-Payers.

The National State Caught between World Economy and Individualization: What is to be Done?.

The Globalization Shock: A Belated Discussion.

Part I: Dimensions, Controversies, Definitions: .

1. The World Horizon Opens Up: On the Sociology of Globalization.

2. Transnational Civil Society: How a Cosmopolitan Vision is Emerging.

3. Contours of World Society: Rival Perspectives.

Part II: Perspectives:.

4. Errors of Globalism.

5. Responses to Globalization.

6. Europe and Globalization.

Conclusion: Decline a la Carte: The Brazilianization of Europe.

Further Reading.

Index.