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'Globalization and Belonging's headline message - that place matters, that locality remains vital to people, is arresting' - Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University, London Drawing on long-term empirical research into cultural practices, lifestyles and identities, Globalization and Belonging explores how far-reaching global changes are articulated locally. The authors address key sociological issues of stratification as analysis alongside 'cultural' issues of identity, difference, choice and lifestyle. Their original argument: " Shows how globalisation theory conceives of the 'local'" Reveals that people have a sense of elective belonging based on where they choose to put down roots " Suggests that the feel of a place is much more strongly influenced by the values and lifestyles of those migrating to it" reinvigorates debates in urban and community studies by recovering the 'local' as an intrinsic aspect of globalisationTheoretically rigorous, the book is brought to life with direct quotations from the authors' research, and appeals to students in urban sociology, urban geography, media studies and cultural studies.
The Limits of Local Attachment
The Limits of Local Attachment
The genre of community studies is currently in crisis. These studies of local social relations have a long and venerable history stretching back to the Victorian social inquiries of eminent observers such as Mayhew, Booth and Rowntree (see Abrams 1968; Yeo 1996). During much of the 20th Century this tradition matured as it became more sophisticated in its methodology and the period between 1950 and 1970 in particular witnessed a series of path-breaking studies (see the overview in Crow 2002). However, as we identified in Chapter 1, since the 1970s it has become increasingly uncertain how local communities are to be theoretically understood in a period of dramatic global change, while its case study methodology has ...
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