Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
Contents
The impact of globalization on sociological concepts : community, culture and milieu / Martin Albrow [and others] -- Travelling beyond local cultures : socioscapes in a global city / Martin Albrow -- The delinking of locale and mileu : on the situatedness of extended milieux in a global environment / Jörg Dürrschmidt -- Working-class culture : local community and global conditions / Darren O'Byrne -- Local lives-distant ties : researching community under globalized conditions / Graham Fennell -- Rethinking poverty in globalized conditions / Laura Buffoni -- Reconstructing places : changing images of locality in docklands and spitalfields ; Identity, nation and religion : educated young Bangladeshis in London's East End / John Eade -- "Tribal arts" : a case study of global compression in the Notting Hill Carnival / Patricia Alleyne-Dettmers.
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Summary
How do global influences affect people's everyday life? This book reveals how such key concepts as community, culture, class, poverty and identity can be reconceptualized in the concept of global/local processes.