Global America? The Cultural Consequences of Globalization

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Contents v
• List of Contributors vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction 1
• References 10
• Part I - Theoretical Perspectives *
• Chapter 1 - Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions 15
• References 28
• Chapter 2 - Assessing Mcdonaldization, Americanization and Globalization 30
• References 46
• Chapter 3 - Culture, Modernity and Immediacy 49
• References 64
• Part II - National Case Studies *
• Chapter 4 - Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalization the American Way 67
• References 91
• Chapter 5 - Debating Americanization: the Case of France 95
• References 112
• Chapter 6 - Consumption, Modernity and Japanese Cultural Identity: the Limits of Americanization? 114
• References 131
• Chapter 7 - Americanization, Westernization, Sinification: Modernization or Globalization in China? 134
• References 148
• Part III - Transnational Processes *
• Chapter 8 - Techno-Migrants in the Network Economy 153
• References 172
• Chapter 9 - The Americanization of Memory: the Case of the Holocaust 174
• References 187
• Chapter 10 - From the Lisbon Disaster to Oprah Winfrey: Suffering as Identity in the Era of Globalization 189
• References 204
• Chapter 11 - Global Media, Cultural Change and the Transformation of the Local: the Contribution of Cultural Studies to a Sociology of Hybrid Formations 206
• References 219
• Chapter 12 - ‘Rockizatione’: Diversity within Similarity in World Popular Music 222
• References 233
• Chapter 13 - The Internet: an Instrument of Americanization? 235
• References 253
• Part IV - Epilogue *
• Afterword - Rethinking Americanization 257
• References 264
• Index 266