Globalization East and West
- Bryan S Turner - City University of New York, USA
- Habibul Haque Khondker - Zayed University, Abu Dhabi
Economic Sociology
Do we confuse globalization for Americanization? What are the distinctive elements in the interplay of the local and the global?
This much needed book is the first full length text to examine globalization from the perspective of both the West and the East. It considers globalization as a general social and economic process, and the challenges it presents for Western social science.
The meaning of a global perspective is explored through various concrete examples: religion, migration, medicine, terrorism, global disasters, citizenship, multiculturalism, media and popular culture.
Introduced with a forward from Roland Robertson the book is brimming with novel interpretations and fresh insights that will contribute to illuminating the practical realities of globalization.
A wide-ranging, significant contribution
Göran Therborn
Professor of Sociology, Cambridge University
According to Turner and Khondker, globalization is an all-encompassing process by which humanity has entered a qualitatively distinct civilizational stage. Their [this] book offers a comprehensive, systematic and powerful account of the new world we are facing and will serve as an essential basis for scholarly innovations urgently required in all social sciences. This is a highly revealing yet balanced analysis of globalization that will intellectually enrich both academic and general readers
Professor Chang Kyung-Sup
Seoul National University
A lively, well-informed, and accessible guide through the dynamics and complexities of globalization. This volume shows why sociology rather than economics offers more powerful and far more subtle ways of understanding global trends and global crises
Robert Holton
Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin
Challenges the idea that globalisation is the same as Westernisation, imperialism or Americanisation. The direction of global processes is always changing, but crucially this is not a one-way street. Far too little attention has been paid to the fact that the influence of Asian culture on the West is at least as great as, if not more so, in the first decade of the 21st century as that of the West on the East
Ken Smith, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Bucks New University
Times Higher Education (THE)
The book is an essential read for anybody who engages in exploring globalisation. It presents globalisation as a more inclusive and comprehensive framework. The book makes a valuable contribution to macro and micro analyses of globalisation, rigorously contesting the view that globalisation equates Westernisation. An extremely engaging read, spanning many contexts and aspects of globalisation.
Interesting read when looking at globalisation. Have passed to a Nursing lecturer who would like to adapt the book for use in creating awareness of globalisation of HIV awareness.
The book challenges the taken-for-granted western-centred perspectives of globalisation. It is highly critical and insightful into the complexities of globalisation and yet, it is also accessible.
This is an excellent text on Globalisation. It is theoretically sophisticated, critically engaging, and empirically comprehensive. The text is perhaps a little dense in parts for some undergraduate programmes, but perfect for courses on globalisation within sociology programmes in particular.
This provides a very useful and coherent overview of those components of the globalisation process, which is an inherent feature for the study of modern societies.
Very good text with an original approach that sets it apart from many texts in the field.
My course is intended for serving seconday school teachers who expect an introduction to globalization from multiple perspectives, so that they can engage in further self-study and feel confident enough to teach their students. The first few chapters of this book that focus on concepts and theories are a bit disjointed and too oriented for readers with good sociology background. The middle section of the book contains good chapters on some aspects of globalization, such as disaster relief, medicine, and war. However, it is not always clear how these human activities, no doubt global in scale nowadays, interact (speed up or slow down, change the nature) with the process of globalization. The final few chapters on citizenship, human rights, and multiculturalism are very well written. Both theoretical and historical descriptions are well written and should be readily understood by readers from diverse background. In summary, I would suggest my students to read some of the better written chapters.
A rather concise but book on all the important subjects of Globalisation, written from an interesting perspective. The collaboration between the two authors really adds a dimension to the book.
I think this is excellent for my level 3 students particularly those who are studying the globalisation of the cruise industry
This gives a broad approach to issues which relate to the globalisation and engages in comparables. A great book to use with up to date information from other sources. thank you
