The purpose of this research is to see how continent specific sports rose to its modern-day status through globalization. This research focuses on the historical background of how England's football, America's national pastime, baseball, Japan's Judo, and Korea's Taekwondo developed into sports in addition to the reasoning behind its globalization. Promoted by England and the rest of the Europe...

The major purpose of this study is to find out what factors are responsible for Hallyu, the flow and popularity of Korean popular cultural products in East Asia, and which direction Hallyu is heading for. To do this, recent structural and institutional changes in the region are examined and the 2008 EASS data analyzed. Opening up of the cultural market and development of the mass media industry...

In this response the statistical contours of the so-called knowledge economy are first described. This description does not constitute a capitulation to the hyperbole of those who see the dawning of a utopia in the knowledge era. Rather it merely provides a context to introduce the contributors to this theme and their analyses of the social and cultural issues implicit in the globalization of k...

The media imperialism thesis is the most widespread systemic account of cultural globalization. This is in spite of the fact that various ethnographic studies of culture consumption continue to produce evidence that shows that the predictions derived from this approach are not consistent with what is observed. In‐ stead of homogeneity of consumption, we find diversity of interpretat...

Globalization is a multi-dimensional process of economic, political, cultural, and ideological change. It has had a mixed impact on women’s rights. On the one hand, it has led to increasing violations of women’s economic, political, and cultural rights in large measure due to the withering away of the welfare-developmental state, the feminization of poverty, the expansion of religious fundament...

It is clear that globalization is something more than a purely economic phenomenon manifesting itself on a global scale. Among the visible manifestations of globalization are the greater international movement of goods and services, financial capital, information and people. In addition, there are technological developments, more transboundary cultural exchanges, facilitated by the freer trade ...

How are they related to each other? This chapter seeks to answer these questions. Answering the first is simple. Obviously, the current world order cannot be fully understood without taking ‚globalization‛ into consideration. The effects of Globalization reach every corner of the world in different scope and degree. Why is ‚civilization‛ important? It is important because civilization incorpora...

Over the past decade it has gradually become apparent that we are living in an age that is characterized by globalization. There is no single accepted definition of this process, although the word has been in our vocabulary for forty years. Our initial efforts to make sense of it have understandably focused so far on economic and political consequences. These are the most conspicuous, but the l...

[email protected] Globalization impacts urban dynamics. Some cities more than others have taken advantage of globalization to become real poles of economic and cultural development or to reinforce their position as major world cities. Other cities have had more difficulties in jumping into the new global economy and are still struggling with the ghosts of their industrial pasts. Between t...