What role higher education plays in the future will largely depend on how society comes to view globalization, says Robert H. Craig, a professor of history and international studies at the College of ...

The Brexit referendum, and some of the political discourse in the US presidential election, shows clearly that there is pushback on globalization. Globalization is a term that I think of as referring ...

Claims that the current age is one of secularization are much exaggerated; even amid globalization, religion enjoys “a luxurious pluralism,” writes Peter L. Berger, a professor of sociology and ...

Three key questions lie at the heart of debates about whether global crises and escalating geopolitical tensions have begun to reverse globalization: Has the growth of cross-border trade, capital, ...

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Cross-border flows plummeted in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic swept the world, reinforcing doubts about the future of globalization. As we move into 2021, the latest data paint a clearer — and more ...

Abstract. In this paper we address two bodies of sociological research: the effects of globalization and theories of pay. Most sociological writings on globalization emphasize its negative ...

Globalization has not come without a cost. In today's world of international travel, if someone from Japan sneezes, someone in southeast Missouri may soon catch a cold. Or maybe even something worse.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In early April, I visited Jamaica to attend the Destination Experience Visionaries Summit, an international business conference ...

Vol. 53, No. 1, CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOSITIES: EMERGENT SOCIALITIES AND THE POST-NATION-STATE (SPRING 2009), pp. 55-66 (12 pages) Pentecostal Christianity has in the last several decades demonstrated an ...

Law schools from around the world have joined forces to create what they say is the first formal, international network geared toward spurring legal teaching and research collaborations.