ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of some of the major theoretical approaches to the culture of globalization,while attempting to identify the unifying themes and accomplishments of this literature as it relates to sociology. The study of globalization's cultures must acknowledge the continued importance of nations while also recognizing new sources of meaning and belonging. Stephen Collier and Aihwa Ong's important edited volume, Global Assemblages, offered a new framework for thinking through new cultures of globalization by focusing on technologies of the self in multiple locations. It focuses on the contributions of feminist theory to theorizing about culture and globalization, an approach that still has much to contribute to mainstream sociological understandings of this critical field. Political globalization involves the study of the institutionalization of international political structures, and the evolution of the European interstate system has given rise to ‘both an increasingly consensual international normative order and a set of international political structures that regulate all sorts of interactions’.
