World Culture
Origins and Consequences
Published on 8. May 2008
280 pages
978-1-4051-4117-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the development, content, and impact of worldculture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoreticalperspectives on world culture, including the world polity approachand globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment ofthe development of world culture and assesses the complex impact ofworld culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is aprovocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of worldculture that is essential for any student or scholar ofglobalization and world affairs.
* Traces world culture back from the mid-19th century to thepresent day
* Includes numerous illustrations of key issues and empiricalresearch
* Written in lively, accessible language for the student andgeneral scholar
Reviews / Votes
"Lechner and Boli's scholarship is extensive, theoretical, abstractand synthetic ... The authors engage in conceptual and theoreticalrefinement and synthesis of existing scholarship and extend thatintellectual frontier with their own substantial contributions.Lechner and Boli ... deserve special commendation for the rich andilluminating historical context and examples." Choice "Lechner and Boli have done their homework and the compendiumthey offer is valuable in itself." The International History Review "This volume provides a fascinating, and immenselybroad-ranging, call to understand the complex inter-relationshipsbetween geopolitical forces and those resilient urban lives. Whilstas a source of multiple departures it should be of interest to anequally broad ranging audience, for those particularly curiousabout the often-neglected ways in which extreme ideologies seek toconstruct and reconstruct understandings of cities there is much toconsider." Andrew Inch, Oxford Brookes UniversityMore details
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Persons
Frank J. Lechner is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published numerous papers on global change, fundamentalism, secularization, and sociological theory. He is co-editor, with L. van Vucht-Tijssen and J. Berting, of The Search for Fundamentals (1995).
John Boli is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published extensively on global culture and organizations, education, citizenship, and state power and authority. His books include New Citizens for a New Society (1989) and Constructing World Culture (with George M. Thomas, 1999).
They are the co-editors of The Globalization Reader (2nd edition, Blackwell, 2003).
Content
List of Tables vi
Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations viii
1 Introduction: The Olympic Games and the Meaning of World Culture 1
2 Analyzing World Culture: Alternative Theories 30
3 Tracing World Culture: A Brief History 60
4 Constructing World Culture: UN Meetings as Global Ritual 81
5 Sustaining World Culture: The Infrastructure of Technology and Organizations 109
6 Differentiating World Culture: National Identity and the Pursuit of Diversity 135
7 Transforming World Culture: The Antiglobalization Movement as Cultural Critique 153
8 Expanding World Culture: Pentecostalism as a Global Movement 173
9 Opposing World Culture: Islamism and the Clash of Civilizations 191
10 Instituting World Culture: The International Criminal Court and Global Governance 215
11 Epilogue: Reflections on World Culture 234
References 241
Index 261
