Runaway+World

Giddens, Anthony. 2003. Runaway World: How Globalization is Reshaping our lives. Routledge Press, New York. Introduction to Globalization, and theory of contemporary changes in culture in response. Contains an Annotated bibliography. Giddens suggests that globalization influences the constitution and experience of many institutions and fields of society, his essays focus on; 1.risk; 2. tradition, and identity formation; 3. family (structure); 4.democracy. These are all connected to the shifts which are referred to as ‘globalization’. Giddens links rising fundamentalism, neoliberalism, changes in the relationship of individuals (as well as groups) to the nation-state, flexibility and communication to a central theme of change in the global system of cultures.