The Global Sociology Blog

Globalization: The Basics

• Albrow, M. (1996). The global age. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Appadurai, A. (1996). Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• Bauman, Z. (2000). Liquid modernity. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Beck, U. (1992). Risk society: Towards a new modernity. London: Sage.
• Giddens, A. (1990). The consequences of modernity. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Greider, W. (1997). One world, ready or not: the manic logic of global capitalism. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Harvey, D. (1990). The condition of postmodernity : An enquiry into the origins of cultural change. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
• Held, D., & McGrew, A. (2002). Globalization /‌ Anti-globalization. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Held, D., McGrew, A., Goldblatt, D., & Perraton, J. (1999). Global transformations. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Huxley, A. (1998). Brave new world. New York: Perennial Classics. (Original work published 1936)
• Lash, S., & Urry, J. (1987). The end of organized capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Robertson, R. (1992). Globalization. London: Sage.
• Roy, O. (2004). Globalized Islam: The search for a new ummah. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Scholte, J. A. (2000). Globalization: A critical introduction. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Sennett, R. (1998). The corrosion of character: The personal consequences of work in the new capitalism. New York: W. W. Norton.
• Steger, M. B. (2003). Globalization: A very short introduction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Strange, S. (1997). Casino capitalism. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
• Wallerstein, I. (2004). World-systems analysis: An introduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Waters, M. (2001). Globalization (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.

Globalization: Cultural Dimensions

• Appadurai, A. (1996). Modernity at large: Cultural dimensions of globalization. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
• Atkinson, P. (1999). Deconstructing Media Mythologies of Ethnic War in Liberia . In T. Allen & J. Seaton (Eds.), The Media of Conflict: War Reporting and Representations of Ethnic Violence. London: Zed Books.
• Barber, B. R. (1995). Jihad vs. McWorld. New York: Times Books.
• Bryman, A. (2004). The Disneyzation of society. London: Sage.
• Cowen, T. (2002). Creative destruction: How globalization is changing the world’s cultures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Glassner, B. (1999). Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the WrongThings. New York: Basic Books.
• Goodman, R. (2002). Culture as ideology: explanations for the development of the Japanese economic miracle. In T. Skelton & T. Allen (Eds.), Culture and global change (pp. 127-136). London: Routledge.
• Lechner, F. L., & Boli, J. (2005). World culture: Origins and consequences. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
• Nederveen Pieterse, J. (2004). Globalization and culture: Global melange. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Ritzer, G. (2000). The Mcdonaldization of society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
• Ritzer, G. (2004). The globalization of nothing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
• Robertson, R. (1992). Globalization. London: Sage.
• Rowe, W., & Schelling, V. (1991). Memory and modernity: Popular culture in Latin America. London: Verso.
• Wallerstein, I. (2004). World-systems analysis: An introduction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Waters, M. (2001). Globalization (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.

Globalization: Socialization & Identity

• Barry, B. (2002). Culture & Equality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Bauman, Z. (2003). Liquid love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Bauman, Z. (2004). Work, Consumerism and the New Poor. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
• Boase, J., Horrigan, J. B., Wellman, B., & Rainie, L. (2006, January). The strength of internet ties: the internet and email aid users in maintaining their social networks and provide pathways to help when people face big decisions. Washington DC: Pew Internet and American Life Project.
• Carter, D. M. (2004, December). Living in virtual communities: Making friends online. Journal of Urban Technology, 11(3), 109-125.
• Castells, M. (2004). The power of identity. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
• Erlanger, S. (2006, August 28). Fox News Journalists Free After Declaring Conversion. New York Times, p. A3.
• Gitlin, T. (2001). Media unlimited : how the torrent of images and sounds overwhelms our lives. New York: Metropolitan Books.
• IMC Plastic Surgeons Remove The Scars of War in Sierra Leone. (2001, September 1). International Medical Corps Newsroom. Retrieved June 9, 2007, from International Medical Corps Web site: http://www.imc-la.com/‌content/‌article/‌detail/‌792/
• Jaffrelot, C. (2003, Spring). Les violences entre Hindous et Musulmans au Gujarat (Inde) en 2002: Emeutes d’etat, pogromes et reaction anti-jihadistes. Tiers Monde, 44(174).
• Lareau, A. (2004). Unequal childhoods: Class, race, and family life. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Malarek, V. (2003). The Natashas: Inside the new global sex trade. New York: Arcade Publishing.
• Marin, K. A. (1998). Becoming a gendered body: Practices of preschools. American Sociological Review, 63, 494-511.
• Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Schor, J. (2004). Born to buy : the commercialized child and the new consumer culture. New York: Scribner.
• Sen, A. (2006). Identity and violence: The illusion of destiny. New York: W. W. Norton.
• Singer, P. W. (2005). Children at War. New York: Pantheon Books.
• Wagner, C. G. (2004, July/‌August). Aggression and violent media: Playing videogames may lead to more violence than watching TV. The Futurist, 16.

Globalization: Network Society / Surveillance Society

• Asch, S. (1956). Studies of independence and conformity: A minority of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological Monographs, 70(9).
• Barney, D. (2004). The network society. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Bourdieu, P., & Wacquant, L. (1992). An invitation to reflexive sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Brin, D. (1998). The transparent society : will technology force us to choose between privacy and freedom? Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
• Castells, M. (1996). The rise of the network society. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
• Castells, M. (1998). End of Millenium. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
• Clarke, R. (1988). Information technology and dataveillance. Communications of the ACM, 31(5), 498-512.
• Etzioni, A. (1975). A comparative analysis of complex organizations: On power, involvement, and their correlates. New York: Free Press.
• Foer, F. (2004). How soccer explains the world: an unlikely theory of globalization. New York: Harper Collins.
• Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
• Goffman, E. (1961). Asylums; essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company.
• Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: notes on the management of spoiled identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Goffman, E. (1982). Interaction ritual : essays on face-to-face behavior. New York: Pantheon Books. (Original work published 1967)
• Janis, I. (1972). Victims of groupthink. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Kushner, H. (2003). Encyclopedia of terrorism. Thousnd Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Lyon, D. (2001). Surveillance society: Monitoring everyday life. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
• Lyon, D. (2003). Surveillance as social sorting: computer codes and mobile bodies. In D. Lyon (Ed.), Surveillance as social sorting: privacy, risk and digital discrimination (pp. 13-30). London: Routledge.
• Marx, G. (1985). The surveillance society: The threat of 1984-style techniques. The Futurist, 21-26.
• McLean, B., & Elkind, P. (2004). The smartest guys in the room: the amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron. New York: Portfolio.
• Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Sageman, M. (2004). Understanding terror networks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Stalder, F. (2006). Manuel Castells. Cambridge, UK: Polity.

Globalization: Poverty & Development

• Allen, T., & Thomas, A. (2000). Poverty and Development in the 21st Century. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Bales, K. (1999). Disposable people: New slavery in the global economy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Byrne, D. (2001). Social Exclusion. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press.
• Castells, M. (2000). End of Millenium (2nd ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
• Chauvel, L. (2006). Les classes moyennes a la derive. Paris: Seuil.
• Chossudovski, M. (2003). The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order (2nd ed.). Pincourt, Canada: Global Research.
• Davis, K., & Moore, W. (1945, April). Some principles of stratification. American Sociological Review, 7, 242-249.
• Dos Santos, T. (1970). The structure of dependence. The American Economic Review, 60(2), 231-236.
• Graaff, J. (2003). Poverty and development. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Iceland, J. (2006). Poverty in America: A Handbook. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Isaak, R. A. (2005). The Globalization Gap: How the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Left Further Behind. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall - Financial Times.
• Lapeyronnie, D. (2006). Le social ignore ou le point aveugle de la Republique. In S. Beaud, J. Confavreux, & J. Lindgaard (Eds.), La France invisible (pp. 520-531). Paris: La Decouverte.
• Lardner, J., & Smith, D. A. (2005). Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences. New York: The New Press.
• Maurin, E. (2004). Le ghetto francais: Enquete sur le separatisme social. Paris: Seuil.
• Munck, R. (2005). Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.
• Robbins, R. (2005). Global problems and the culture of capitalism (3rd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
• Sachs, J. (2005). The end of poverty - Economic possibilities for our time. New York: Penguin Books.
• Sklair, L. (2001). The transnational capitalist class. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
• Therborn, G. (2006). Inequalities of the World: New Theoretical Frameworks, Multiple Empirical Approaches. London: Verso.

Globalization: Global Tensions

• Abu-Assad, H. (Director). (2005). Paradise Now [Motion picture]. Palestine: Warner Independent Pictures.
• Beck, U. (1992). Risk society: Towards a new modernity. London: Sage.
• Castells, M. (1998). End of Millenium. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
• Combs, C. C. (2006). Terrorism in the twnty-first century (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Drohan, M. (2003). Making a killing: How corporations use armed force to do business. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press.
• Farr, K. (2005). Sex trafficking: The global market in women and children. New York: Worth Publishers.
• Goodin, R. E. (2006). What’s Wrong with Terrorism? Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
• Hoffman, B. (1998). Inside terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press.
• Juergensmeyer, M. (2003). Terror in the mind of God: The global rise of religious violence. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
• Kaldor, M. (2001). New & old wars: organized violence in a global era. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Kushner, H. (2003). Encyclopedia of terrorism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Laqueur, W. (1999). The new terrorism: Fanaticism and the arms of mass destruction. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Malarek, V. (2003). The Natashas: Inside the new global sex trade. New York: Arcade Publishing.
• McDougall, D. (2006, January 1). Desperate Tamil rebels snatch village children to serve as footsoldiers. The Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved June 16, 2007, from http://observer.guardian.co.uk/‌international/‌story/‌0,6903,1676250,00.html
• Munkler, H. (2005). The new wars. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Niccol, A. (Director). (2005). Lord of War [Motion picture]. United States: Lion’s Gate Films.
• Nullis-Kapp, C. (2004, September). Organ trafficking and transplantation pose new challenges. Bulletin of World Health Organization, 89(2), 715.
• Pedhazur, A. (2005). Suicide terrorism. Cambridge, UK: Polity.
• Robinson, J. (2000). The merger: the conglomeration of international organized crime. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press.
• Singer, P. W. (2003). Corporate warriors: The rise of the privatized military industry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
• Singer, P. W. (2005). Children at War. New York: Pantheon Books.
• White, J. R. (2002). Terrorism (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.