… Therefore, we adopt a pluralistic approach to critical theory, embracing the different … critical
theory, the theoretical paradigm that informs the investigation of globalization in this book. …

… both theories and empirical studies on globalization. Rather than propose a classification of
globalization theories … as heuristic tools in concrete globalization studies. The focus is on key …

… of Critical Theory as a social theory of practical knowledge. I argue that such a Critical Theory
… or “praxeology” that might orient democratic political activity in the age of globalization. …

… critical pedagogy and radical democratic politics. I propose the need for a critical theory of
globalization … ing into how globalization has affected social movements, democratization, and …

… In what follows we consider whether critical theory offers a possible way of coping with the
challenges that globalization presents to our conventional forms of political and social theory, …

… " globalization" as if it has such essential qualities (there is now a" sociology of globalization…
that the word we are talking about—globalization globalization-signifies not a" thing" but a …

… thesis of globalist theorists, specifically the argument that globalization is inevitable and the
… We will proceed to critically analyze several of the basic premises of globalization theorists: …

… In its uses and confusions, globalization resembles closely the other great word of contemporary
social theory: modernity. I argue in this book that globalization has taken over the tasks …

… The purpose of this investigation is to underline the relevance of critical theory for attempts
to make sense of the globalization chal lenge. If political community and social bonds are …

… theory. If we want a genuinely global analysis of globalization we must reconstruct sociological
theory as … critical theory of globalization can only work as a multifocal project in which the …