Global Culture(s) - Mike Featherstone
An Introduction
Mapping the Global Condition - Roland Robertson
Culture as the Ideological Background of the Modern World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein
Culture and the World-System - Roy Boyne
Culture as the World-System - Immanuel Wallerstein
A Reply to Roy Boyne
Turning World-Systems Theory on its Head - Alberg Bergesen
Models of the Modern World-System - Peter Worsley
Theory, Culture and Post-Industrial Society - Margaret Archer
The Idea of Revolution - Alain Touraine
Modernity and Ambivalence - Zygmunt Bauman
Towards a Global Culture? - Anthony D Smith
The Dream of a Secular Ecumene - Friedrich H Tenbruck
The Meaning and Limits of Policies of Development
Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity - Johann Arnason
Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture - Ulf Hannerz
Conflicts of Culture in Cross-Border Legal Relations - Volkmar Gessner and Angelike Schade
A Research Topic in the Sociology of Law
The Big Bang and the Law - Yves Dezalay
The Internationalization and Restructuration of the Legal Field
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy - Arjun Appadurai
Being in the World - Jonathan Friedman
Globalization and Localization
AIDS as a Globalizing Panic - John O¿Neill
The Two Faces of Sociology - Bryan S Turner
Global or National?
Norbert Elias¿s Theory of Humanity as a Very Long-Term Social Process - Stephen Mennell
Privatization and the Public Influence of Religion in Global Society - Peter Beyer
Architecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture - Anthony King

In this book leading international social scientists analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Differing explanations are offered for trends towards global unification and their relation to an economic world-system.