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Globalization and Society Processes of Differentiation Examined
Raymond Breton, Jeffrey G. Reitz, ed.
ISBN: 0-275-97963-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97963-8
336 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £55.95)
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Description: Globalization has been defined as a process in which the population of the world is increasingly bonded into a single society. Although none of the contributors to this collection denies the thrust toward convergence that is implicit in globalizing processes, each contributor also concludes that globalization encourages differentiation. Integration in the global system is not a passive process. In different nations, people analyze and interpret what is happening and respond by developing policies, forming new institutions and changing existing ones. They adopt broad cultural models in order to function effectively in the larger system and they also draw upon their particular traditions, values, institutions and resources to define a place that will be to their advantage economically, politically and socio-culturally. As the studies presented in this book show, integration in the world system may benefit a given society or may harm it; it may entail changes to a society's culture, but does not obliterate a society's distinctive characteristics.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
    Introduction: Rethinking the Impact of Globalization Processes-Differentiation As Well As Convergence by Raymond Breton and Jeffrey G. Reitz
    International Relations
    Trends in Inequality: Toward a World-Systems Analysis by Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Timothy P. Moran, and Angela Stach
    U.S. Foreign Policy and the Foundations of World Order by Louis W. Pauly
    Cosmopolitan Ghosts and Resistance Communities: Québec City's Sumit of the Americas and the Making of Transnational Subjects by André C. Drainville
    Labor Relations and Social Inequality
    Globalization and the Great U-Turns: Income Inequality Trends in 16 OECD Countries by Arthur S. Alderson and François Nielsen
    Workplace Change in the New Economy: Getting Lean and Flexible by James Rinehart
    Reviving the Labor Movement: Rank-and-File Mobilization in the United States, Britain, and Germany by Lowell Turner
    Culture and Social Values
    Technological Change, Cultural Change, and Democracy by Ronald Inglehart
    Politics versus Markets: A Note on the Uses of Double Standards by Axel van den Berg
    Religions in Global Society: Transnational Resource and Globalized Category by Peter Beyer
    Information and Knowledge Institutions
    Science, Technology, Education, and Economy in Centers and Peripheries by Thomas Schott
    Reinventing Birmingham, England, in a Globalized Information Economy by Frank Webster
    The Penetration of Profit Taking in Higher Education and Academic Freedom by Sheila Slaughter
    Nationalism and Migration, Ethnicity and Language
    Migration and Community Formation under Conditions of Globalization by Stephen Castles
    Educational Expansion and the Employment Success of Immigrants in the United States and Canada, 190-90 by Jeffrey G. Reitz
    Nationalism and the New Economy by John A. Hall
    Politics and Democratic Representation
    Changing Citizenship Regimes in Western Europe by Jane Jenson
    Some Political Consequences of Economic Globalization by Albert Breton
    The Future of the Welfare State: Crisis Myths and Crisis Realities by Francis G. Castles
    Index
    Contributors
About the Author: RAYMOND BRETON is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Toronto.

JEFFREY G. REITZ is the R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto.
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