Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-171) and index
1. Introduction: Globalizing Cultural Complexity -- 2. The Autonomization of the Cultural Sphere -- 3. Personality, Unity and the Ordered Life -- 4. The Heroic Life and Everyday Life -- 5. Globalizing the Postmodern -- 6. Global and Local Cultures -- 7. Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity -- 8. Travel, Migration and Images of Social Life
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This study explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. It examines some of the processes that have uncoupled culture from the social, and the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of consumerism