Globalization: The Essentials, 3rd Edition

The Essentials
3 ed
ISBN: 978-1-394-32396-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten

Updated interdisciplinary framework for understanding globalization and deglobalization together

Does globalization persist alongside increasing fragmentation, or have we entered genuine deglobalization? Now in its Third Edition, Globalization: The Essentials uses a distinctive framework of liquids, flows, and solids to help readers visualize abstract global processes and build evidence-based arguments. This extensively revised edition presents updated research showing nuanced ways that globalization and deglobalization coexist, moving beyond simplistic claims in either direction.

New to this edition is expanded coverage of AI's role within globalization, nationalist populism, migration and its critics, fake news and social media manipulation, climate change, information warfare, and transnational social movements. The book features increased emphasis on Global South examples from Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. New visual images, charts, and graphs build data literacy skills throughout.

Readers will also find: - New "Globalization and You" chapter boxes inviting readers to reflect on their personal connections to global structures, flows, and processes
- Analysis of misinformation, disinformation, deep fakes, and AI woven throughout discussions of economic, political, and cultural globalization
- A flexible pedagogical structure that supports integration with instructor-selected course materials across multiple social science disciplines
- Concrete examples and wide-ranging source material designed to encourage classroom discussion and promote independent study and analysis
- Balanced interdisciplinary coverage spanning economic, political, and cultural dimensions rather than focusing narrowly on a single aspect of globalization

Designed for undergraduate and graduate courses across sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, economics, and other social science fields, Globalization serves both general globalization courses and topical seminars on global inequality, cultural globalization, economic globalization, and global problems. Its coherent narrative and accessible metaphors make abstract processes concrete for diverse learners.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean, Paul

Ritzer, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Wirtschaftliche Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 - GLOBALIZATION: CONCEPTUALIZATION, ORIGINS, AND HISTORY

Chapter 2 - THEORIZING GLOBALIZATION

Chapter 3 - GLOBAL ECONOMIC FLOWS: PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION

Chapter 4 – STRUCTURING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

Chapter 5 - GLOBAL POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES

Chapter 6 - GLOBAL CULTURE AND CULTURAL FLOWS

Chapter 7 - HIGH-TECH GLOBAL FLOWS AND STRUCTURES: TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Chapter 8 - GLOBAL FLOWS OF MIGRANTS

Chapter 9 - GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS

Chapter 10 - NEGATIVE GLOBAL FLOWS AND PROCESSES: DISEASE, CRIME, TERRORISM, AND WAR

Chapter 11 - GLOBAL ECONOMIC POWER AND INEQUALITY: CLASS INEQUALITIES AND GLOBAL CITIES

Chapter 12 - GLOBAL POWER AND INEQUALITIES II

Chapter 13 - THE FUTURE OF GLOBALIZATION

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Dean is Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at Ohio Wesleyan University. An award-winning instructor, he is the author of Class Cultures and Social Mobility: The Hidden Strengths of Working-Class First-Generation Graduates (Rutgers University Press, 2025). He previously served as Director of Faculty Development and is a recognized leader on first-gen student pedagogy, speaking and facilitating workshops for faculty, staff, and university administrators across higher education.

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. He is Editor-In-Chief of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology from 2007 and author of several widely adopted books including The McDonaldization of Society (10th ed., 2020) and The Globalization of Nothing (2nd ed., 2007).