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Roland Robertson (August 7, 1938 - April 29, 2022) was a sociologist and theorist of globalization who lectured at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Formerly, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh , and in 1988 he was the President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion .
Globality is the consciousness of the world as a single place. The concept of globality was introduced in the social sciences by British sociologist Roland Robertson.It signifies the spreading and deepening consciousness of the world-as-a-whole and could thus be considered the phenomenological aspect of globalization, which Robertson defined as "the compression of the world and the ...
"Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State" by Linda Weiss, New Left Review, Vol. a, (1997) "Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance. Paul Hirst , Grahame Thompson" by Roland Robertson, American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 102, No. 4, (1997)
At a 1997 conference on "Globalization and Indigenous Culture", sociologist Roland Robertson stated that glocalization "means the simultaneity – the co-presence – of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies". [10]
Roland Robertson (1992). Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture. London: Sage. ISBN 978-0803981874. George M Thomas; John W Meyer; Francisco O Ramirez & John Boli (1987). Institutional Structure: Constituting State, Society and the Individual. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-0803928923
[22] In 1992, Roland Robertson, professor of sociology at the University of Aberdeen and an early writer in the field, described globalization as "the compression of the world and the intensification of the consciousness of the world as a whole." [23] In Global Transformations, David Held and his co-writers state:
Veteran journalist and political analyst Roland Martin’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., is filled with vibrant paintings and prints by Black artists. But the one that speaks loudest is the ...
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