The Blackwell companion to globalization / edited by George Ritzer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Globalization in hard times : contention in the academy and beyond / Anthony McGrew -- 2. What is globalization? / Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White -- 3. The cultural construction of neoliberal globalization / Robert J. Antonio -- 4. Globalization : the major players / George M. Thomas -- 5. Globalization today / John Boli and Velina Petrova -- 6. Theories of globalization / William I. Robinson -- 7. Studying globalization : methodological issues / Salvatore Babones -- 8. Cosmopolitanism : a critical theory for the twenty-first century / Ulrich Beck -- 9. The end of globalization? : the implications of migration for state, society and economy / Suthrajit Gubathakurta, David Jacobson and Nicholas C. DelSordi -- 10. Globalization and the agrarian world / Philip McMichael -- 11. Globalization and the environment / Steve Yearley -- 12. Critics and globalization / Michael Timberlake and Xiulian Ma -- 13. The sociology of global organizations / Stewart Glegg and Chris Carter -- 14. Economic globalization : corporations / Peter Dicken -- 15. Outsourcing : globalization and beyond / George Rutzer and Craig Lair -- 16. Globalization and consumer culture / Douglas J. Goodman -- 17. Cultural globalization / John Tomlinson -- 18. Globalization and ideology / Manfred B. Steger -- 19. Media and globaligation / Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce -- 20. Globalization and information and communications technologies : the case of war / Howard Tumber and Frank Webster -- 21. Political globalization / Gerard Delanty and Chris Rumford -- 22. Globalization and public policy / Tim Blackman -- 23. Religion and globalization / Peter Beyer -- 24. Globalization and higher education / Peter Manicas -- 25. Sport and globalization / David L. Andrews and Andrew D. Grainger -- 26. The fate of the local / Melissa L. Caldwell and Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr. -- 27. Public health in a globalizing world : challenges and opportunities / Farnoosh Hashemian and Derek Yach -- 28. Globalization and global inequalities : recent trends / Glenn Firebaugh and Brian Goesling -- 29. World inequality in the twenty-first century : patterns and tendencies / Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran -- 30. Globalization and corruption / Carolyn Warner -- 31. Globalization and sexuality / Kathryn Farr -- 32. War in the era of economic globalization / Gerald Schneider -- 33. Globalization and international terrorism / Gus Martin -- 34. Resisting globalization / Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- 35. The futures of globalization / Bryan S. Turner.