Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Rational Choice Theory and Methodological Individualism
- 2 Network Theories
- 3 Cultural Sociology
- 4 Identity
- 5 Emotions Theory
- 6 Theorizing Sex/Gender: Feminist Social Theory
- 7 Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
- 8 Modernity
- 9 Realism
- 10 Globalization: Not Good, Bad, or Over
- 11 Time/Space
- 12 Social Theory in the Anthropocene: Ecological Crisis and Renewal
- 13 Embodiment
- 14 Sexualities
- 15 Multiculturalism
- 16 Risk
- 17 Trust and the Variety of Its Bases
- 18 Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory
- 19 Civil Society
- 20 Social Movements: Sequences vs Fuzzy Temporality
- 21 Immigration
- Index
- References
10 - Globalization: Not Good, Bad, or Over
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Rational Choice Theory and Methodological Individualism
- 2 Network Theories
- 3 Cultural Sociology
- 4 Identity
- 5 Emotions Theory
- 6 Theorizing Sex/Gender: Feminist Social Theory
- 7 Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
- 8 Modernity
- 9 Realism
- 10 Globalization: Not Good, Bad, or Over
- 11 Time/Space
- 12 Social Theory in the Anthropocene: Ecological Crisis and Renewal
- 13 Embodiment
- 14 Sexualities
- 15 Multiculturalism
- 16 Risk
- 17 Trust and the Variety of Its Bases
- 18 Unities Within Conflict: Mapping Biology’s Relevance to Sociological Theory
- 19 Civil Society
- 20 Social Movements: Sequences vs Fuzzy Temporality
- 21 Immigration
- Index
- References
Summary
Globalization is a phenomenon that elicits considerable debate.Did it begin in the nineteenth or twentieth century? Does it promote economic growth and political stability, or generate inequality and upheaval? Does the recent rise of nationalist populism signal globalization’s demise?This essay explains that although the contours and intensive of globalization shift over time, it is neither new nor is it over.Meanwhile, it both generates benefits and extracts costs, and does so unevenly across and within countries.
Cultural hybridity, democratization, economic interconnectedness, globalization, Great Recession, nation state
Sheila Croucher is Distinguished Professor of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University.Trained in comparative politics, her research focuses on globalization’s implications for cultural and political belonging. She is the author of Globalization and Belonging: The Politics of Identity in a Changing World (second edition 2018); The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico (2009); and Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World (1997).
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 184 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020