Borderlines in a Globalized World  New Perspectives in a Sociology of the World-System /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by G. Preyer, Mathias Bös. 
 - 1st ed. 2002. 
 - XVIII, 241 p. 2 illus.  online resource. 
 - Social Indicators Research Series,  9  1387-6570 ; .
 - Social Indicators Research Series,  9 .
<br/><br/>From the contents: ntroduction -- Borderlines in Time of Globalization: New Theoretical Perspective -- I: Reconceptionalizations of the Global: Borderlines in the World-System -- II: Defining Borderlines in the World-System: The Emergence of New Memberships -- III: The Global and the Local: The Collapse and Reconstruction of Borderlines -- Index -- Contributors. 
<br/><br/> Scholars of different schools have extensively analyzed world systems as networks of communication under the fashionable heading `globalization.' Our collected new research pushes the argument one step further. Globalization is not a homogenization of all social life on earth. It is a heterogeneous process that connects the global and the local on different levels. To understand these contemporary developments this book employs innovative concepts, strategies of research, and explanations. Globalization is a metaphor for different borderstructures, new borderlines, and conditions of membership, which emerge in a global world-system. As a world-system expands it incorporates new territories and new peoples. The process of incorporation creates frontiers or boundaries of the world-system. These frontiers or boundary zones are the locus of resistance to incorporation, ethnogenesis, ethnic transformation, and ethnocide. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789401709408 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-94-017-0940-8  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociology.<br/>Quality of life.<br/>Social sciences.<br/>Economic growth.<br/>Sociology, general.<br/>Quality of Life Research.<br/>Social Sciences, general.<br/>Economic Growth.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM401-1281 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>301