Globalization: A Basic Text

Updated and revised to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text provides an approachable and comprehensive introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies. Already widely praised for its balanced and accessible presentation of globalization’s major theories and key events, this new edition features the inclusion of several topical global justice issues and a heightened emphasis on recent global movements, along with the latest findings in globalization research and emerging technological trends—including Internet surveillance, drone technology, and more. Other topics covered in depth include contemporary concerns surrounding the economy—including ongoing effects of the global recession—culture, media, population migration, global climate change, global inequalities, and the future of globalization. Complex issues are made more accessible through a series of maps, text boxes, and an extensive glossary of key terms. With its incorporation of major recent global developments, Globalization: A Basic Text, SecondEdition , represents an invaluable and indispensable resource for an understanding of the transformative effects and issues that are shaping today’s globalized world.

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He has authored numerous books, including The McDonaldization of Society (Seventh Edition, 2012); and is editor of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007) and The Wiley–Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (2012). Paul Dean is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is co–editor of The Sociological Cinema , a website promoting video to teach and learn sociology.