Globalization, Consumption and
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22370362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beryl Langer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosg051 |
| OpenAlex | W4249015696 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
The terms globalization and consumption combine with reference to the emergence of a global consumer culture: the same products, services, and entertainment sold in the same kinds of retail and leisure spaces (malls, plazas, theme parks, cineplexes) to consumers around the world. From luxury cars and designer clothes to jeans, t‐shirts, toys, snack food, and bottled water, markets are global rather than national. The same electronic equipment, cosmetics, children's toys and grocery lines are consumed in cities as remote from each other as Sydney and Stockholm, Bahrain and Birmingham. Product availability is less tied to specific places, first because the same global brands are on sale at the same time throughout the world and second because traders catering to deterritorialized immigrants recreate the retail environment of their homeland by importing familiar products. Starbucks, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Kentucky Fried Chicken are everywhere – as are family‐run restaurants selling “ethnic” food to customers in search of either the taste of “home” or the exotic. It is no longer necessary to go to Paris and Milan to buy Dior and Armani, the US to get a baseball cap, India to get a sari, or the Middle East and Southeast Asia for hijabs and burkhas. All are on sale in cities around the world, although the different circumstances of their circulation serve to remind us that globalization is not one process, but many
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Globalization in Question
Global Transformations
The McDonaldization of society
Transnational Connections
Mapping the Futures
Glocalization
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The nation in the global village
European Cities, the Informational Society, and the Global Economy
Material cultures
Culture, Multiculture, Postculture
The Globalization of Human Society as a Very Long-term Social Process
Being in the World
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |