03581nam 22006492 450 991078225370332120170816155711.01-78138-666-81-84631-321-X(CKB)1000000000541167(EBL)380603(OCoLC)476209257(SSID)ssj0000163163(PQKBManifestationID)11167215(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000163163(PQKBWorkID)10106960(PQKB)11067545(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127446(UkCbUP)CR9781781386668(Au-PeEL)EBL380603(CaPaEBR)ebr10369350(MiAaPQ)EBC380603(EXLCZ)99100000000054116720170307d2003|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGlobal America? the cultural consequences of globalization /edited by Ulrich Beck, Nathan Sznaider and Rainer Winter[electronic resource]Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2003.1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Studies in social and political thoughtTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).0-85323-918-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Theoretical Perspectives; 1: Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions; 2: Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization; 3: Culture, Modernity and Immediacy; Part II: National Case Studies; 4: Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalization the American Way; 5: Debating Americanization: The Case of France; 6: Consumption, Modernity and Japanese Cultural Identity: The Limits of Americanization?7: Americanization, Westernization, Sinification: Modernization or Globalization in China?Part III: Transitional Processes; 8: Techno-Migrants in the Network Economy; 9: The Americanization of Memory: The Case of the Holocaust; 10: From the Lisbon Disaster to Oprah Winfrey: Suffering as Identity in the Era of Globalization; 11: Global Media, Cultural Change and the Transformation of the Local: The Contribution of Cultural Studies to a Sociology of Hybrid Formations; 12: 'Rockization': Diversity within Similarity in World Popular Music; 13: The Internet: An Instrument of Americanization?Par IV: EpilogueAfterword: Rethinking Americanization; IndexMany contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.Studies in social and political thought.GlobalizationSocial aspectsAmericanizationUnited StatesForeign relationsGlobalizationSocial aspects.Americanization.327.73Beck Ulrich1944-2015,Sznaider Natan1954-Winter Rainer1960-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910782253703321Global America3703228UNINA$148.5010/10/2017Poli