Mike Featherstone 
Global Culture [PDF ebook] 
Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity

In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate to existing cultural divisions and to the autonomy of the nation state? Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system. Will the intensification of global contact produce increasing tolerance of other cultures? Or will an integrating culture produce sharper reactions in the form of fundamentalist and nationalist movements?

The contributors explore the emergence of `third cultures′, such as international law, the financial markets and media conglomerates, as elements which transcend the boundaries of the nation state. As well as examining the extent, causation and consequences of global homogenization, the authors consider its implication for the social sciences.

Global Culture was published simultaneously as Volume 7, issues 2-3 of Theory, Culture & Society.

Tabella dei contenuti

Global Culture(s) – Mike Featherstone

An Introduction

Mapping the Global Condition – Roland Robertson

Culture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System – Immanuel Wallerstein

Culture and the World-System – Roy Boyne

Culture as the World-System – Immanuel Wallerstein

A Reply to Roy Boyne

Turning World-Systems Theory on its Head – Alberg Bergesen

Models of the Modern World-System – Peter Worsley

Theory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society – Margaret Archer

The Idea of Revolution – Alain Touraine

Modernity and Ambivalence – Zygmunt Bauman

Towards a Global Culture? – Anthony D Smith

The Dream of a Secular Ecumene – Friedrich H Tenbruck

The Meaning and Limits of Policies of Development

Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity – Johann Arnason

Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture – Ulf Hannerz

Conflicts of Culture in Cross-Border Legal Relations – Volkmar Gessner and Angelike Schade

A Research Topic in the Sociology of Law

The Big Bang and the Law – Yves Dezalay

The Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal Field

Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy – Arjun Appadurai

Being in the World – Jonathan Friedman

Globalization and Localization

AIDS as a Globalizing Panic – John O′Neill

The Two Faces of Sociology – Bryan S Turner

Global or National?

Norbert Elias′s Theory of Humanity as a Very Long-Term Social Process – Stephen Mennell

Privatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society – Peter Beyer

Architecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture – Anthony King