Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations (SAGE Studies in International Sociology Book 51)

How are global forces impacting on local lifestyles? Where does the personal stand in relation to globalization? Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds explores these questions using a mixture of sociological and anthropological analysis and case study methods. Demonstrating the tensions between retaining cultural integrity in the face of the levelling processes associated with modernity, this book: locates the problems of globalization and localization in the appropriate anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the relationship between culture and identity; and explores the varieties of modernity. During the last decade, the activities of our Research Committee 09, 'Sociology of Social Transformation and Social Practice', have concentrated on micro-sociological analyses of socioeconomic, political and cultural transformations of local life-worlds through the continuing and intensifying processes of globalization. Thirteen papers, presented by Schuerkens (cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, France) represent a summary of the activities of the Research Committee 09, "Social Practice and Social Transformation," of the International Sociological Association Edited By Ulrike Schuerkens. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.