Global Networks

by Holton, Robert J.

ISBN13: 9780230521056

ISBN10: 0230521053

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2007-11-15

Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

Global network research is an exciting new area of social analysis. This book is the first to provide a thorough investigation of global network links across time and space. Robert Holton demonstrates the way in which technological and interpersonal networks organise global society, providing vivid examples from the present and the past. This text gives practical advice on how to research global networks, and brings together leading theory and new evidence on the subject for all students learning about globalisation and contemporary social change.

Author Biography

ROBERT HOLTON is a leading historical sociologist. Currently Professor of Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin, he is the author of a number of books and articles on social theory and globalization. His books include Globalization and the Nation-State (Macmillan 1998) and Making Globalization (Palgrave 2005).

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Making Globalization: Complexity, Human Agency and History	p. 7
Plan of the Book	p. 12
Towards a Theory of Global Networks	p. 17
Manuel Castells and the Theory of Network Society	p. 17
Evaluating Castells	p. 21
Network Analysis, Networks as a Major Organizational Form and the Transition to Global Network Research	p. 29
Markets, Hierarchies and Networks	p. 32
Networks as a Distinct Organizational Form	p. 35
Linking Network Theories with Globalization	p. 39
Global Networks from Below	p. 41
Are 'Global Networks' Really Global?	p. 42
Conclusion	p. 47
Methodologies of Global Network Analysis	p. 49
Global Network Research and Social Network Analysis	p. 49
Network Morphology	p. 52
Using Network Morphologies	p. 65
How Do We Know When a Global Network Exists? Some Quantitative and Qualitative Research Strategies	p. 67
Research in Multiple Settings	p. 70
Historical Sources on Global Networks	p. 72
Conclusion	p. 76
Global Network Types	p. 77
Identifying Global Network Types	p. 77
A Compendium of Network Types	p. 80
Conclusion	p. 104
On the Importance of Particular Persons	p. 106
In Search of Particular Persons	p. 106
Networks and Particular Persons: Some Sociological Themes	p. 109
The Uneasy Location of Particular Persons within Sociology	p. 112
Reputation and Networks: Some Introductory Issues	p. 115
Reputation through Global Networks of Particular Persons	p. 118
Friendship, Kinship and Sociability	p. 124
Conclusion	p. 131
Global Networks and Cross-Cultural Engagement	p. 133
Some Introductory Issues	p. 134
Analysing Culture	p. 137
Problems with Essentialist Views of Culture	p. 138
Problems with Said's Critique of Orientalism	p. 141
Intercultural Engagement and the Place of Global Networks	p. 143
Intercultural Engagement and Empire	p. 145
Global Networks around Rabindranath Tagore	p. 147
The Emergence of a Global Public Sphere	p. 152
Beyond Elites and Leadership through Networks	p. 161
Conclusion	p. 165
Politics and Global Networks	p. 167
Politics in Relation to Markets, Hierarchies and Networks	p. 169
Global Networks and Democracy	p. 174
Global Civil Society?	p. 178
Global Networks and Elites	p. 183
Global Networks, Democracy, and the Challenge of War and Conflict	p. 187
Conclusion	p. 191
Prospects and Challenges	p. 192
Networks and Contemporary Society	p. 192
Network Challenges to State-Centric Organization	p. 194
Beyond a Top-down Approach to Networks	p. 196
What is Global about Global Networks?	p. 197
Methodological Glocalism	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 221
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