The Globalization of Nothing 2
ISBN: 9781412940221 | 1412940222
Format: PaperbackPublisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
Pub. Date: 1/18/2007
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The Globalization of Nothing is back in a revised and completely updated edition, with an even greater emphasis on the processes of globalization and how they relate to McDonaldization. As before, this book is structured around four sets of concepts addressing the issues of: "places/non-places," "things/non-things," "people/non-people," and "services/non-services." By drawing upon salient examples from everyday life, George Ritzer invites the reader to examine the nuances of these concepts in conjunction with the paradoxes within the process of... MORE
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Nothing: A Brief (No Need to be Lengthy) Introduction | |
| Nothing | |
| An Illustrative Excursion to the Movies | |
| Nothing (and Something): Further Clarification | |
| Nothing Is Nothing | |
| In Defense of Nothing | |
| The Production of Nothing | |
| Conceptualizing Nothing (and Something) | |
| Unique-Generic, One-of-a-Kind-Interchangeable | |
| Local Geographic Ties-Lack of Local Ties | |
| Specific-to-the-Times-Relatively Time-less | |
| Humanized-Dehumanized | |
| Enchanted-Disenchanted | |
| How Does This Relate to Globalization? | |
| Objective, or Are They? | |
| Meet the Nullities | |
| Non-Places (and Places) | |
| Non-Things (and Things) | |
| Non-People (and People) | |
| Non-Service (and Service) | |
| The Relationship Between Forms of Nothing (and Something) | |
| Globalization | |
| Glocalization and Grobalization | |
| Glocalization | |
| Grobalization | |
| Some Complexities | |
| Grobalization-Glocalization and Something-Nothing | |
| The Grobalization of Something | |
| The Grobalization of Nothing | |
| The Glocalization of Nothing | |
| The Glocalization of Something | |
| Expensive, Globally Available Types of Nothing | |
| Loose Cultural, Tight Structural Models | |
| What About the Local? | |
| Why Now? | |
| Which Comes First: Nothing or Its Grobalization? | |
| The Ultimate Example of Nothing and Its Grobalization? Large-Scale Consumption Sites on the Internet | |
| Some Important Caveats | |
| Back to the Main Argument | |
| Meet the Nullities on the Internet | |
| Large-Scale Consumption Sites on the Internet as Non-Places | |
| The Non-Things for Sale on Large-Scale Consumption Web Sites | |
| Non-People on Those Large-Scale, Internet Consumption Sites | |
| Non-Services on Those Large-Scale Consumption Web Sites | |
| Globalization | |
| A Few (by Necessity) Concluding Thoughts on Nothing (and Its Globalization) | |
| The Increase in Nothing! The Decline in Something? | |
| The Positive Side of Nothing and Its Spread | |
| The Negative Side of the Spread of Nothingness | |
| Grobalization and Loss | |
| Explaining the Gap | |
| Nostalgia? | |
| Changes Over Time | |
| How Can We Make So Much Out of So Little? | |
| Making Something Out of Nothing on the Internet | |
| The Economics of Nothingness | |
| A Lot of Nothing Is Still Nothing | |
| Concluding Thoughts on Globalization (and Nothing) | |
| Grobalization Versus Glocalization | |
| Can the Local Be Resuscitated? | |
| The Globalization of Nothing and September 11, 2001 | |
| Consumption and Beyond | |
| The Role of Brands | |
| Responding to the Grobalization of Nothing | |
| Appendix: Nothing-Theoretical and Methodological Issues | |
| Nothing: Previous Work | |
| Some Modern Methodological (Epistemological) Problems | |
| Modern Concepts in a Postmodern Age | |
| Salvaging a (Semi-) Modern Approach | |
| A (General) Standpoint Theory | |
| Alternative Perspectives | |
| Potential Criticisms | |
| Rational Choice? | |
| Are Consumers Judgmental Dopes? | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
| About the Author | |
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