George Ritzer - Globalization: The Essentials

Second Edition

George Ritzer and Paul Dean

This balanced introduction draws on academic and popular sources to examine the major issues and events in the history of globalization.

Globalization: A Basic Text Second Edition is a substantial introductory textbook, designed to work either on its own or alongside Readings in Globalization. The books are crossreferenced and are both structured around the core concepts of globalization.

2015 572 pages 9781118687123 paperback
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Key Readings and Major Debates

Edited by George Ritzer and Zeynep Atalay

This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes.

Readings in Globalization illustrates that major debates in the field are not only useful to examine for their own merit but can extend our knowledge of globalization. The volume explores both the political economy of globalization and the relationship of culture to globalization.

The volume is designed so it may be used independently, or alongside George Ritzers Globalization: A Basic Text 2nd Edition for a complete student resource.

2010 560 pages 9781405132732 paperback

Second Edition

GEORGE RITZER

AND

PAUL DEAN

This edition first published 2019
2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Edition History
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (1e, 2011)

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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Ritzer, George, author and Dean, Paul, author.
Title: Globalization : the essentials / Professor George Ritzer, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA, Paul Dean, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, USA.
Description: Second Edition. | Hoboken, New Jersey : WileyBlackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2019. |This unique and engaging anthology ... is designed so it may be used independently, or alongside George Ritzers Globalization: A Basic Text 2nd Edition for a complete student resourceT.p.verso. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2018032347 (print) | LCCN 2018033965 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119315001 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119315254 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119315209 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Globalization.
Classification: LCC JZ1318 (ebook) | LCC JZ1318 .R5835 2019 (print) | DDC 303.48/2dc22
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018032347

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Globalization: The Essentials is an abbreviated version of Globalization: A Basic Text (2015). While the latter is designed as a fullscale textbook for a course on globalization, this volume is considerably shorter. It can still be used as a text in such a course, but its comparative brevity enables the instructor to assign other books as well. In addition, it can be used as a supplementary book in a variety of other courses in sociology and the social sciences. As the title suggests, this volume retains the essential elements of the original text. Two chapters, the Appendix, and some segments of all chapters have been deleted from Globalization: A Basic Text to create it. That material is, of course, important, but hard decisions had to be made about what to cut and what not to cut. It is our belief that this shorter text continues to deliver what is most important to a fundamental understanding of this deeply important process.

The Globalization: A Basic Text, Second Edition, companion website includes a number of resources created by the author that you will find helpful.

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For Students

• Student Study Guide
• Chapter Summaries
• Additional Readings
• Website Links
• Discussion Questions
• Additional Questions

The website includes

• Teaching Notes
• Discussion Question Answer Frames
• Additional Question Answer Frames
• PowerPoint Teaching Slides

Globalization is increasingly omnipresent. We are living in a or even the global age (Albrow : 156, italics added).