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Increasing worldwide concern for the globe in the second half of the twentieth century culminated in the fervent debate around globalisation in the 1990s. That is a matter of public record. It tells us little, however, about advances in knowledge. Notoriously, globalisation has been both everywhere and elusive.
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Albrow, M. (2004). The Global Shift and its Consequences for Sociology. In: Genov, N. (eds) Advances in Sociological Knowledge. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-09215-5_2
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