{"product_id":"world-culture-paperback","title":"World Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank J. Lechner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Boli\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture, including the world polity approach and globalization theory, the book gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies. This is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces world culture back from the mid-19th century to the present day\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes numerous illustrations of key issues and empirical research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten in lively, accessible language for the student and general scholar\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining two of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world culture - the world polity approach and globalization theory - the book traces the development of world culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It includes extensive illustrations of key issues and empirical research, gives a historical treatment of the development of world culture, and assesses the complex impact of world culture on people, organizations, and societies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a provocative, synthetic, and grounded interpretation of world culture that is essential for any student or scholar of globalization and world affairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank J. Lechner\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published numerous papers on global change, fundamentalism, secularization, and sociological theory. He is co-editor, with L. van Vucht-Tijssen and J. Berting, of \u003ci\u003eThe Search for Fundamentals\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Boli\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at Emory University. He has published extensively on global culture and organizations, education, citizenship, and state power and authority. His books include \u003ci\u003eNew Citizens for a New Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eConstructing World Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (with George M. Thomas, 1999).\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThey are the co-editors of The Globalization Reader (2nd edition, Blackwell, 2003).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.14 x 5.95 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 17, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47385612124409,"sku":"9780631226772","price":61.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/JPJmaNNjM99780631226772.webp?v=1770181604","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/world-culture-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}