A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era. Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers. Globalization: The Essentials explores the flows, structures, processes, and consequences of globalization in the modern economic, political, and cultural landscape. This comprehensive introduction offers balanced coverage of areas such as global economic and cultural flows, environmental sustainability, the impact of technology, and racial, economic, and gender inequality — providing readers with foundational knowledge of globalization. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition includes expanded coverage of human trafficking and migration, global climate change, fake news and information wars, and transnational social movements with increased emphasis on examples from Central and South America, Africa, and Asia:
• Offers a straightforward approach to the multiple facets of globalization and their positive and negative influences on contemporary society
• Employs unique metaphors and a coherent narrative structure to promote intuitive understanding of abstract concepts
• Introduces cutting-edge research, updated statistics, and real-world examples in areas such as rising global populism, social justice movements, blockchain technology, and cryptocurrencies
• Provides an efficient and flexible pedagogical structure, allowing integration with instructor’s own course material

Emphasizing student comprehension, a wide range of source material is incorporated including empirical research, relevant theories, newspaper and magazine articles, and popular books and monographs. Examples of current research and recent global developments, such as emerging economies and global health concerns, encourage classroom discussion and promote independent study. Globalization: The Essentials — a compact edition of the authors’ full-sized textbook Globalization: A Basic Text — provides concise coverage of the central concepts of this dynamic field. Offering a multidisciplinary approach, this textbook is an invaluable primary or supplemental resource for undergraduate study in any social science field, as well as coursework on economics, migration, inequality and stratification, and politics.

对全球化及其在当代的作用进行了简明的探讨。在技术进步和全球公司的推动下，越来越多的人被全球化进程所吞噬，产生了新的赢家和输家。全球化。本书探讨了全球化在现代经济、政治和文化领域的流动、结构、过程和后果。这本综合介绍均衡地涵盖了全球经济和文化流动、环境可持续性、技术影响以及种族、经济和性别不平等等领域，为读者提供了全球化的基础知识。经过广泛的修订和更新，第二版扩大了对人口贩运和移民、全球气候变化、假新闻和信息战以及跨国社会运动的报道，并更加重视中南美洲、非洲和亚洲的例子。

- 对全球化的多个方面及其对当代社会的积极和消极影响提供了一种直截了当的方法。

- 采用独特的比喻和连贯的叙述结构，促进对抽象概念的直观理解。

- 介绍了全球民粹主义抬头、社会正义运动、区块链技术和加密货币等领域的前沿研究、最新统计数据和现实世界的例子。

- 提供了一个高效、灵活的教学结构，允许与教师自己的课程材料相结合

强调学生的理解力，纳入了广泛的原始材料，包括实证研究、相关理论、报纸和杂志文章以及流行书籍和专著。当前研究和近期全球发展的例子，如新兴经济体和全球健康问题，鼓励课堂讨论并促进独立研究。全球化。要点》--是作者的全尺寸教科书《全球化》的精简版。基础课本》--简明扼要地涵盖了这一动态领域的核心概念。这本教科书提供了一个多学科的方法，对于任何社会科学领域的本科学习，以及关于经济学、移民、不平等和分层以及政治的课程，都是宝贵的主要或补充资源。