... Nations agreements. The publication questions whether globalisation will produce higher acceptance and tolerance levels between societies, or whether a backlash from fundamentalist and nationalist movements will occur. Robertson,R, (1992), Social Theory and Global Culture, Sage, London: Robertson begins his book by percieving globalisation as a problem, discussing the public's changing conceptions of a world which is rapidly `shrinking', and the potential social, political and economis repercussions of this, before continuing to illustrate the ways in which culture has become a globally contested issue e.g. the repidly changing process "...yields new actors and `third cultures'- such as transnationsl movements and international organisations- that are orientated negatively or positively, to a global-human circumstance" p61. Robertson then argues "Cultural pluralism is itself a constitutive part the contemporary global circumstance " (blurb) finishing the book with a ‚search for fundamentals' in the global perspective. The above texts are relevant to the part of ...

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