Global Forces and Local Life-Worlds: Social Transformations by Ulrike Schuerkens

By Ulrike Schuerkens

How are international forces impacting on neighborhood existence? the place does the private stand with regards to globalization? Global Forces and native Life-Worlds explores those questions utilizing a mix of sociological and anthropological research and case research tools. Demonstrating the tensions among maintaining cultural integrity within the face of the levelling methods linked to modernity, this publication: locates the issues of globalization and localization within the applicable anthropological and sociological dimensions; examines the connection among tradition and identification; and explores the kinds of modernity.

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