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Global Civil Society or Global Consumer Society?

2008
In recent years, optimistic analyses concerning globalization — specifically those forecasting the decline of state authority and the related rise of a progressive global civil society (GCS) — have been pervasive, especially among left-leaning intellectuals and activists.
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Global Companies, Global Society

Journal of Management Inquiry, 2002
One of the clearest challenges of the 21st century is to create multinational organizations that support an economically vibrant and culturally diverse global society. This article addresses issues raised in September 2001 from the perspective of a Norwegian-based multinational company that is combining its global business strategy with unique ...
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The Global Network Society and the Global Public Sphere

Development, 2003
Ingrid Volkmer outlines the new ‘flow’ of political information that enables us to become informed about issues of global, regional as well as local relevance. The new media infrastructure allows an eyewitness view of events taking place in worldwide locations.
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Society And Market In The Era Of Globalization

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2005
AbstractThis chapter considers the meaning of the terms "society" and "market," and the need for markets to be institutionalized and legitimated. Obligatory norms and recommendatory guidelines today come from many sources: from states, from groupings of states, and from worldwide bodies such as the IMF, the WTO, and the World Bank.
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Role of the global civil society

The Lancet, 2005
The concept of health promotion as a public-health policy is of surprisingly recent vintage. Emerging in the mid-1970s it was enthusiastically embraced at a 1978 conference sponsored by WHO and UNICEF at Alma Ata Kazakhstan. There almost all of the 134 nations represented reaffirmed health as a fundamental human right and endorsed an ambitious new ...
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The Global Society

2009
The current positions of sociologists as well as of political scientists, historians, and economists clearly illustrate a paradigmatic turn where the obsolete “methodological nationalism” has been replaced with a global analytical perspective (Cotesta 2007).
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Brussels and the global information society

Internet Research, 1997
Considers the correct role of the European Commission in the light of its dependency on information from all European Union institutions.
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Globalization and Society

2003
Globalization has been defined as a process in which the population of the world is increasingly bonded into a single society. Although none of the contributors to this collection denies the thrust toward convergence that is implicit in globalizing processes, each contributor also concludes that globalization encourages differentiation.
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Global Society and Global Organization

1957
If one closes one’s eyes and attempts to visualize our present world, one becomes aware of the extent to which modern Man is a group- animal. Wherever one thinks of roaming, there are people, governments, borders, passports, and even the mind can no longer rise to a vision of freedom.
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Cultural Diversity in a Global Society

Science, 2012
In her Editorial “The global knowledge society” (3 February, p. [503][1]), N. V. Fedoroff argues that “creating a truly global knowledge society” would empower humanity to solve its common problems. However, she neglects to acknowledge that humanity's problems, although shared, are inextricable from local cultural and ecological contexts. Knowledge may
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