• Accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization
• Considers issues such as America's changing world role under Obama, the growth of China as a global power, anti-globalization movements, the spread of global media and migration
• Underlines the importance of economic motivations and structures, and shows how power, inequality and conflict are major factors in globalization
• Will be an ideal companion to students across the social sciences taking courses that cover globalization, and the sociology of globalization in particular