List of Contributors | vii | |
Acknowledgments | xi | |
Introduction | 1 | |
Natan Sznaider and Rainer Winter | ||
PART I | THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES | |
1 | Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging from a Rivalry of Distinctions | 15 |
Ulrich Beck | ||
2 | Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and Globalization | 30 |
George Ritzer and Todd Stillman | ||
3 | Culture, Modernity and Immediacy | 49 |
John Tomlinson | ||
PART II | NATIONAL CASE STUDIES | |
4 | Hyperpower Exceptionalism: Globalization the American Way | 67 |
Jan Nederveen Pieterse | ||
5 | Debating Americanization: The Case of France | 95 |
Richard Kuisel | ||
6 | Consumption, Modernity and Japanese Cultural Identity: The Limits of Americanization? | 114 |
Gerard Delanty | ||
7 | Americanization, Westernization, Sinification: Modernization or Globalization in China? | 134 |
Yu Keping |
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