Global America?: The Cultural Consequences of Globalization

Natan Sznaider; Rainer Winter

Global America?

The Cultural Consequences of Globalization

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.

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The Cultural Consequences of Globalization

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xii

Introduction
pp 1-12

PART I - THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
pp 13-14

1 - Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions
pp 15-29

2 - Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization
pp 30-48

3 - Culture, Modernity and Immediacy
pp 49-64

PART II - NATIONAL CASE STUDIES
pp 65-66

4 - Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalization the American Way
pp 67-94

5 - Debating Americanization: The Case of France
pp 95-113

6 - Consumption, Modernity and Japanese Cultural Identity: The Limits of Americanization?
pp 114-133

7 - Americanization, Westernization, Sinification: Modernization or Globalization in China?
pp 134-150

PART III - TRANSNATIONAL PROCESSES
pp 151-152

8 - Techno-Migrants in the Network Economy
pp 153-173

9 - The Americanization of Memory: The Case of the Holocaust
pp 174-188

10 - From the Lisbon Disaster to Oprah Winfrey: Suffering as Identity in the Era of Globalization
pp 189-205

11 - Global Media, Cultural Change and the Transformation of the Local: The Contribution of Cultural Studies to a Sociology of Hybrid Formations
pp 206-221

12 - ‘Rockization’: Diversity within Similarity in World Popular Music
pp 222-234

13 - The Internet: An Instrument of Americanization?
pp 235-254

PART IV - EPILOGUE
pp 255-256

Rethinking Americanization
pp 257-264

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