• ISBN13: 9781405188241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyEconomics
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: John Wiley
• Publication Date: March 15, 2012
• Pages: 2638
• Original Price: USD 1233.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 5285 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

About the Book Containing over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, this collection offers the definitive reference resource for students, researchers and academics in the field.

• Updated annually
• Offers clear and concise explanations of the key concepts of Globalization
• Includes entries on concepts derived from across the social sciences, from sociology and anthropology to political science, economics, and human geography
• Looks at the founding theories as well as the realities of globalization today
• Covers the essential topics in the study of globalization, including agency-structure, Americanization, anti-globalization, Bretton Woods; coca-colonization, Empire; Euro crisis, ethnic cleansing, exploitation, feminization of poverty, genocide, global warming, nation-state, neo-liberalism, oil, post-globalization, Qaedaism, rape, sex work, sport, terror, Transnational Corporations, Twitter Revolution, water crisis, Web 2.0, Wikileaks, World Social Forum and, Zapatistas
• Includes a number of key documents listed as entries such as the Kyoto Protocol and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, with awards that include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous books including The McDonaldization of Society (1993; 2008; 2011), The Globalization of Nothing (2003; 2007) Globalization: A Basic Text (2010) and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007), and The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007). His work has been translated into over twenty languages.