Globalization and Society: Processes of Differentiation Examined - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0275979636 ISBN 13 : 9780275979638

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Globalization has been defined as a process in which the population of the world is increasingly bonded into a single society. Although none of the contributors to this collection denies the thrust toward convergence that is implicit in globalizing processes, each contributor also concludes that globalization encourages differentiation. Integration in the global system is not a passive process. In different nations, people analyze and interpret what is happening and respond by developing policies, forming new institutions and changing existing ones. They adopt broad cultural models in order to function effectively in the larger system and they also draw upon their particular traditions, values, institutions and resources to define a place that will be to their advantage economically, politically and socio-culturally. As the studies presented in this book show, integration in the world system may benefit a given society or may harm it; it may entail changes to a society's culture, but does not obliterate a society's distinctive characteristics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RAYMOND BRETON is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Toronto.

JEFFREY G. REITZ is the R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0275979636
• ISBN 13: 9780275979638
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Breton Raymond, Reitz Jeffrey G.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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