Globalization, Knowledge and Society

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^national traditions, cultures and economies through §|||al change.
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international sociology has been developing with contributors ffpn a variety
of national cultures. Sociology must analyse the social processes involved
in globalization; art the same time it is itself responding to, and shaplpby those
processes

This volume addresses the issues involved in the development of|ociology
as a global discipline. Classic issues of relativism and universalism |fe raised
in a new context. The related problems of tensions between national
sociological traditions and the international discipline are explored. Finally the
book considers the transnational process of social change, particularly as
exemplified in international actors such as the Green and peace movements.
This innovative volume, drawing on papers from International Sociology,
addresses key questions for all those... Tovább

Fülszöveg

C-L v
ends in the
letration of
^national traditions, cultures and economies through §|||al change.
The secondris a simultaneous process in whicrt^pistinctive
international sociology has been developing with contributors ffpn a variety
of national cultures. Sociology must analyse the social processes involved
in globalization; art the same time it is itself responding to, and shaplpby those
processes

This volume addresses the issues involved in the development of|ociology
as a global discipline. Classic issues of relativism and universalism |fe raised
in a new context. The related problems of tensions between national
sociological traditions and the international discipline are explored. Finally the
book considers the transnational process of social change, particularly as
exemplified in international actors such as the Green and peace movements.
This innovative volume, drawing on papers from International Sociology,
addresses key questions for all those interested either in the nature of
contemporary social change or in the challenge to sociology and other
disciplines posed by such change.
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Martin Albrow is Professorial Fellow at the Sir David Owen Population
Centre and the School of Social and Administrative Studies, Universitfgof
Wales College of Cardiff. His books include Bureaucracy (1970) and l%x
Weber's Construction of Social Theory (1990). He is the founding editor'pf
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International Sociology.
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Elizabeth King has been the Editorial Assistant of International Sociology
from its foundation and is now Assistant Editor.
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