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Global America?: The Cultural Consequences of Globalization

Ulrich Beck, Nathan Sznaider, and Rainer Winter

Abstract

Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

Keywords: contemporary issues, nation state, globalization, global processes, transnational processes, Americanization, worldwide impact, cultural consequences, concept of globalization

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2004 Print ISBN-13: 9780853239185
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846313219

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Ulrich Beck, editor

Nathan Sznaider, editor

Rainer Winter, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Natan Sznaider and Rainer Winter

Part I Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 1 Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions

Ulrich Beck

Chapter 2 Assessing Mcdonaldization, Americanization and Globalization

George Ritzer and Todd Stillman

Chapter 3 Culture, Modernity and Immediacy

John Tomlinson

Part II National Case Studies

Chapter 4 Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalization the American Way1

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Chapter 5 Debating Americanization: The Case of France

Richard Kuisel

Chapter 6 Consumption, Modernity and Japanese Cultural Identity: The Limits of Americanization?1

Gerard Delanty

Chapter 7 Americanization, Westernization, Sinification: Modernization or Globalization in China?

Yu Keping

Part III Transnational Processes

Chapter 8 Techno-Migrants in the Network Economy

Aihwa Ong

Chapter 9 The Americanization of Memory: The Case of the Holocaust

Natan Sznaider

Chapter 10 From the Lisbon Disaster to Oprah Winfrey: Suffering as Identity in the Era of Globalization

Eva Illouz

Chapter 11 Global Media, Cultural Change and the Transformation of the Local: The Contribution of Cultural Studies to a Sociology of Hybrid Formations

Rainer Winter

Chapter 12 ‘Rockization’: Diversity within Similarity in World Popular Music

Motti Regev

Chapter 13 The Internet: An Instrument of Americanization?

Rob Kroes

Part IV Epilogue

Afterword: Rethinking Americanization

Roland Robertson

End Matter

Index