Globalization East and West by Bryan S Turner

Globalization East and West by Bryan S Turner

An engaging, and refreshingly international analysis of globalisation from two of the worlds leading figures in the field.

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 stageTheir [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)

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of Sociology in the Asian Research Institute (ARI) at the National University of Singapore. Previously he was Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge from 1998-2005. His research interests include globalization and religion, concentrating on such issues as religious conflict and the modern state, religious authority and electronic information, religious, consumerism and youth cultures, human rights and religion, the human body, medical change, and religious cosmologies. He is Joint Chief Editor of the journal Citizenship Studies and serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals. Dr Habibul Khondker is Professor in Humanities at Zayed University, Dubai.

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ISBN 13	9781412928533
ISBN 10	1412928532
Title	Globalization East and West
Author	Bryan S Turner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2010-03-25
Number of pages	256
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