TY - BOOK AU - Martell,Luke TI - The sociology of globalization SN - 9780745636740 (pbk.) U1 - 303.482 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge PB - Malden, MA, Polity KW - Globalization KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-326) and index; Introduction: concepts of globalization -- Perspectives on globalization: divergence or convergence? -- The history of globalization: pre-modern, modern or postmodern? -- Technology, economy and the globalization of culture -- The globalization of culture: homogeneous or hybrid? -- Global migration: inequality and history -- The effects of migration: is migration a problem or a solution? -- The global economy: capitalism and the economic bases of globalization -- Global inequality: is globalization a solution to world poverty? -- Politics, the state and globalization: the end of the nation-state and social democracy? -- Global politics and cosmopolitan democracy -- Anti-globalization and global justice movements -- The future world order: the decline of American power? -- War and globalization ER -