ABSTRACT
This chapter argues the concept of glocalization into contemporary debates about transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. It examines an effort to sort out varied understandings and connotations of these terms. The chapter introduces a theoretical framework that connects glocalization to transnationalism. The transnational experience should be conceived as involving several layers, ranging from the construction of transnational social spaces to the formation of transnational communities. It focuses discussion shifts to empirical social research on cosmopolitanism. It distinguishes between different uses of the term cosmopolitan and argues that these uses have important repercussions for the practice of social research. The chapter introduces the notion of the cosmopolitan, local continuum, that is, a conceptualization of the cosmopolitan, local binary as a range or a continuum of different attitudes and predispositions. This conceptualization also allows empirical investigations using cross-national statistical data. The results from such empirical investigations and trace their implications for different conceptualizations of the cosmopolitan.
