TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger,Peter L.
AU  - Huntington,Samuel P.
TI  - Many globalizations: cultural diversity in the contemporary world 
SN  - 0195168828 (pbk.)
AV  - HM621 .M36 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Culture
KW  - Globalization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The Cultural Dynamics of Globalization / Peter L. Berger -- Globalization and Alternative Modernities -- Managed Globalization: State Power and Cultural Transition in China / Yunxiang Yan -- Coexistence and Synthesis: Cultural Globalization and Localization in Contemporary Taiwan / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- Aspects of Globalization in Contemporary Japan / Tamotsu Aoki -- "A Tryst with Destiny": The Indian Case of Cultural Globalization / Tulasi Srinivas -- Globalization and Regional Subglobalization -- Cultural Globalization in Germany / Hansfried Kellner, Hans-Georg Soeffner -- Rival Temptations and Passive Resistance: Cultural Globalization in Hungary / Janos Matyas Kovacs -- Globalization on the Periphery -- Globalization, Culture, and Development: Can South Africa be More Than an Offshoot of the West? / Ann Bernstein -- Trends toward Globalization in Chile / Arturo Fontaine Talavera -- Cultural Globalization in Turkey: Actors, Discourses, Strategies / Ergun Ozbudun, E. Fuat Keyman -- The American Vortex -- In the Vanguard of Globalization: The World of American Globalizers / James Davison Hunter, Joshua Yates
N2  - Much discussed but poorly understood, globalization is at once praised as the answer to all the world's problems and blamed for everything from pollution to poverty. Here Peter L. Berger and Samuel P. Huntington bring together an array of experts who paint a subtle and richly shaded portrait, showing both the power and the unexpected consequences of this great force. The stereotypes of globalization -- characterized as American imperialism on the one hand, and as an economic panacea on the other -- fall apart under close scrutiny. Surveying globalization from individual countries of the five major continents, Many Globalizations shows that an emerging global culture does indeed exist. While globalization is American in origin and content, the authors point out that it is far from a centrally directed force like classic imperialism. They examine the currents that carry this culture, from a worldwide class of young professionals to non-governmental organizations, and define globalization's many variations as well as sub-globalizations that bind regions together. Incisive and stimulating, Many Globalizations offers rare insight into perhaps the central issue of modern times, one that is changing the West as much as the developing world
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