Table of Contents

Foreword by Roland Robertson
Introduction: Prospects for a New Sociology of Globalization
Conceptualizing Globalization
Structures and Processes of Globalization
Globalization and the Nation State
Globalization, Culture and Cosmopolitanism
World Religions and Fundamentalism
Migration and Transnationalism
Medical Globalization
New Wars and Terrorism: Globalization of Militarism and Violence
Globalization of Disasters and Disaster Response
Globalization, Citizenship and Human Rights
Multiculturalism, Social Diversity and Globalization
Religion, Media and Popular Culture
Conclusions: Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War?

About the Author

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. 

Reviews

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 stage. Their [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)