Global America? : The Cultural Consequences of Globalization

Global America? : The Cultural Consequences of Globalization

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780853239185
  • DDC分類 327.73

基本説明

This fascinating book explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

Full Description


Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

Contents

Theoretical perspectivesrivalry of distinctions, Ulrich Beck; Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and globalization, George Riter and Todd Stillman; culture, modernity and immediacy, John Tomlinson. National case studies: hyperpower exceptionalism - globalization the American way, Jan Nederveen Pieterse; debating Americanization - the case of France, Richard Kuisel; consumption, modernity and Japanese cultural identity - the limits of Americanization?, Gerard Delanty; Americanization, westernization, sinification - modernization or globalization in China?, Yu Keping. Transnational processes: techno-migrants in the network economy, Aihwa Ong; The Americanization of memory - the case of the Holocaust, Natan Sznaider. (Part contents).