Globalization: A Basic Text, Edition 2

George Ritzer · Paul Dean

thg 11 2014 · Được bán bởi John Wiley & Sons

Giới thiệu về sách điện tử này

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.

• Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globalization
• Includes an enhanced emphasis on issues relating to global governance, emerging technology, global flows of people, human trafficking, global justice movements, and global environmental sustainability
• Utilizes a unique set of metaphors to introduce and explain the highly complex nature of globalization in an engaging and understandable manner
• Offers an interdisciplinary approach to globalization by drawing from fields that include sociology, global political economy, political science, international relations, geography, and anthropology
• Written by an internationally recognized and experienced author team“/li>

Giới thiệu tác giả

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He has authored numerous books, including The McDonaldization of Society (Seventh Edition, 2012); and is editor of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) and The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (2012).

Paul Dean is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is co-editor of The Sociological Cinema, a website promoting video to teach and learn sociology.