Also published as Vol.7, issue 2/3 of Theory, culture and society.

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Global culture: an introduction/ Mike Featherstone -- Mapping the global condition: globalization as the central concept/ Roland Robertson -- Culture as the ideological battleground of the modern world-system/ Immanuel Wallerstein -- Culture and the world-system/Roy Boyne -- Culture is the world-systemL a reply to Boyne/ Immanuel Wallerstein -- Turning world-system theory on its head/ Albert Bergesen -- Models of the modern world-system/ Peter Worsley -- Theory, culture and post -industrial society/ Margaret Archer -- The idea of revolution/ Alain Touraine -- Modernity and ambivalence/ Zygmunt Bauman -- Towards a global culture?/Anthony D. Smith -- The dream of a secular ecumene: the meaning and limits of policies of development/ Fredrich H. Tenbruck -- Nationalism, globalization and modernity/ Johann P. Arnason -- Cosmopolitans and locals in world culture/ Ulf Hannerz -- Conflicts of culture in cross-border legal relations: the conception of a research topic in the sociology of law/ Volkmar Gessner and Angelika Schade -- The big bang and the law: the internationalization and restructuration of the legal field/ Yves Dezalay -- Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy/ Arjun Appadurai -- Being in the world: globalization and localization/ Jonathan Friedman -- AIDS as a globalizing panic/ John O'Neil -- The two faces of sociology: global or national?/ Bryan S. Turner -- The globalization of human society as a very long-term social process: Elias's theory/ Stephen Mennell -- Privatization and the public influence of religion in global society/ Peter F. Beyer -- Architecture, capital and the globalization of culture/ Anthony King.