Processes of contemporary globalization generate a particular landscape of risk. This landscape is shaped by the economic imperatives that lead to the export of hazardous activities, processes and ...

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Globalization and the world economy are often portrayed as being one and the same, but other forms of globalization also have significant effects – not all of them benign – on our daily lives. Unless ...

Over the past half-century we have witnessed a gradual trend towards increased globalization. This phenomenon includes such diverse processes as the greater mobility of capital, goods, and services, ...

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 ...