紹介
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.
目次
Theoretical perspectives: rooted cosmopolitanism - emerging from a rivalry 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).
