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GLOBALIZATION

The constraints of geography are shrinking and the world is

becoming a single place. Globalization and the global society are

increasingly occupying the centre of sociological debates. It is

widely discussed by journalists and a key goal for many busi-

nesses, yet has emerged only recently in social science. In this

extensively revised and restructured new edition of Globalization ,

Malcolm Waters provides a user-friendly introduction to the

main arguments about the process and estimates the direction in

which the world is heading.

The book opens with a conceptual framework for understand-

ing globalization as it ﬂows through the regions of economics,

politics and culture. The next six chapters are arranged in three

groups of two, on economics, on politics and on culture respec-

tively. The ﬁrst chapter of each pair covers the internationalization

period of globalization up to the end of the third quarter of the

twentieth century while the second covers the accelerated phase

of globalization that succeeds it. Here it covers such topics

as planetary environmentalism, the new international division

of labour, global tourism and democratization. The last chapter

is entirely new, considering and rebutting the main critiques of

the globalization thesis that have become current since the ﬁrst

edition was published.

Malcolm Waters is Dean of Arts and Professor of Sociology at

the University of Tasmania, Australia.

KEY IDEAS

S ERIES E DITOR : PETER HAMILTON, T HE O PEN U NIVERSITY , M ILTON K EYNES

Designed to complement the successful Key Sociologists , this series

covers the main concepts, issues, debates, and controversies in sociology

and the social sciences. The series aims to provide authoritative essays

on central topics of social science, such as community, power, work,

sexuality, inequality, benefits and ideology, class, family, etc. Books adopt

a strong individual ‘line’ constituting original essays rather than literary

surveys, and for lively and original treatments of their subject matter. The

books will be useful to students and teachers of sociology, political

science, economics, psychology, philosophy, and geography.

Class

STEPHEN EDGELL

Postmodernity

BARRY SMART

Consumption

ROBERT BOCOCK

Racism

ROBERT MILES

Citizenship

KEITH FAULKS

Risk

DEBORAH LUPTON

Culture

CHRIS JENKS

Sexuality

JEFFREY WEEKS

Lifestyle

DAVID CHANEY

The Symbolic Construction of

Community

ANTHONY P. COHEN

Mass Media

PIERRE SORLIN

Moral Panics

KENNETH THOMPSON

GLOBALIZATION

Second edition

Malcolm Waters

L ONDON AND N EW Y ORK

First published 1995

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Second edition 2001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Waters, Malcolm, 1946–

Globalization / Malcolm Waters.–2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.International economic relations–Social aspects.

2.International relations–Social aspects.3.Cultural relations.

4.International finance–Social aspects.5.Internationalism.

6.Globalization.I.Title.

HF1359 .W39 2001

337–dc21

00–055317

ISBN 0–415–23853–6 (hbk)

ISBN 0–415–23854–4 (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-13647-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-18009-7 (Glassbook Format)

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