This Research Handbook takes stock of the state of the art in sociological research on globalization and the contributors outline future trajectories for this, one of the most pressing and challenging sociological themes of our time.

Contents: The sociology of globalization 1 Christian Karner and Dirk Hofäcker PART I HISTORY/SOCIOLOGY 1 When did globalization start? 16 Zinovia Lialiouti 2 Methodological dilemmas or promises? The sociological imagination and globalization 25 Magali Peyrefitte PART II (INFRA)STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS 3 Work and employment in a globalizing age 34 David Pick 4 Global commodity circuits 45 Craig Martin and Giovanni Marmont 5 Global networks and hybrid cities 60 Kristian Kloeckl 6 Global risks 72 Jean-Christophe Le Coze 7 Global waste 83 Zsuzsa Gille PART III FLOWS AND FRICTIONS 8 Globalization and forced migration 97 Inka Stock 9 Global tourism 108 Esther Bott 10 Globalization as an extension of the triple movement: care workers’ struggles for emancipation 117 Bernhard Weicht 11 Human rights as ends or means of a global moral horizon 127 José Julián López 12 Memory for the global age 142 Marcin Napiórkowski 13 The globalization of religion as a multilayered phenomenon 151 Ugo Dessì 14 The gendered dynamics of migration deterrence and anti-trafficking interventions: the case of Nigerian sex workers in Kumasi, Ghana 164 Sam Okyere 15 Glocalized subjectivities: Egyptian female identities 174 Amal Treacher Kabesh 16 The American guitar in the global market: worldwide flows of people, commodities and symbols 186 Frédéric Moulène PART IV POLITICS 17 Globalization: opportunity or threat to the European Union? 196 Robert Kissack 18 Cosmopolitans versus communitarians? Or something altogether more nuanced? 206 Christian Karner 19 Alternative globalization 217 Luke Martell 20 The rise of racism and antisemitism in the age of globalization 225 Gerald J. Steinacher 21 The globalization of extremism: An odd paradox 238 Joshua Skoczylis and Matthew Leavesley 22 From multiculturalism to superdiversity and (in)hospitality? Shifting policy responses to global migratory flows in the UK 248 Sureyya Sonmez Efe PART V GLOBALIZATION AND THE LIFE COURSE 23 Globalization, uncertainty and changing life courses in modern societies 263 Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Gwendolin Josephine Blossfeld 24 Does a higher minimum salary protect youth from in-work poverty? Cross-national evidence from the EU 274 Kadri Täht, Marge Unt and Thomas Biegert 25 Globalization and the transition from education to employment in the MENA region 287 Michael Gebel 26 Reimagining globalization through a gender lens 297 Esuna Dugarova 27 Pension governance in a globalizing world 307 Bernhard Ebbinghaus 28 Globalization and the transition from work to retirement 318 Dirk Hofäcker, Stefanie König and Moritz Heß PART VI METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL LESSONS, EMERGING QUESTIONS 29 Global – and local – commodity circuits 328 Dawn Lyon 30 Travelling methods 338 Caroline Knowles Epilogue 347 Christian Karner and Dirk Hofäcker Index